[Sunhelp] Solaris 7 Help

[Jarrett Carver]

You could 'boot -s' into single user mode from the OK prompt. If the machine 
is hung just stop-A to get to OK prompt.

To boot from cdrom just 'boot cdrom' from OK prompt. This will start the 
solaris installation in an openwindows environment. You can stop the 
installation, and then in the openwindows environment open an Xterm.

Hope this helps.


>From: Balaji srinivasan <chennai_dude at excite.com>
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: "sunhelp, sunhelp" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [Sunhelp] Solaris 7 Help
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:03:14 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi Admins,
>          I have an Ultra 10 Sun 5.7 system for which I installed the
>Solaris7 recommended patches that were downloaded from sunsolve.sun.com.
>After ths install_cluster script completed I issued reboot command. While
>the system was coming up it gave the following msgs and hung
>
>unable to create /var/adm/utmp
>unable to create /var/adm/utmpx.
>
>To solve this I think I should just do touch utmp/x in /var/adm. Am I
>right?. If so how am I to access the system from OS CD?. As I'm new to this
>OS I wanted to know it from experienced guys in this list. Request your
>help.
>
>Thanks,
>Balaji
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Jarrett Carver           http://www.geocities.com/solarboyz1
solarboyz1 at hotmail.com   Unix/NT Systems Administrator
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