bilbo.barry@locus.ucla.edu (Barry Gold) (02/26/86)
I would like to make a minor change to /etc/rc on my home Fortune 32:16, to make /dev/tty01 publicly readable. But I'm a little nervous about changing /etc/rc; if I goof, the system won't come up. When you ask a Fortune dealer for help with something like that, they just have you reload the whole system from the floppy copy, which wipes out all your files. Does anyone know if it's possible to make less drastic repairs to a Fortune that won't get through startup? For example, can you boot from the floppy and copy just selected files to the hard disk? I'd appreciate whatever advice people can give, since I can think of several ways I could make the system more convenient by slight changes to the startup files. lcc.barry@ucla-cs.ARPA {ucbvax!ucla-cs|ihnp4}!lcc!barry