Brian.Chan@samba (Brian Chan) (12/21/90)
[I'm having trouble posting this article. If you have seen this already, sorry. BC] I got into big trouble last night while installing an alternate shell for my newly acquired ESIX 3.2.2 Rev D. [Well, I actually bought it in September if it means anything.] Stupid me, I forgot to change the ALTSHELL=YES before I did the damage. Yes, yes, RTMF before you do anything. I first used passmgm to change the default shell to csh. That works fine. After I created the .cshrc file, but for some reasons, it won't read the resource file. [Don't know the reason. The path didn'nt change even I ran another csh under it.] I logged out and s****. It won't let me or root or anybody to log on the system anymore. It said "No shell". I then read the ESIX installation and followed the instruction on "Recovery of Unix system". I mount and umount like it says but it won't let me copy the kernel on floppy disk to /mnt. Before I spend another 8 hours installing over again, can anyone tell me how can I get back to system again? Thanks in advance, Brian Stuttgart, FRG Hardware: Gateway 2000 w/CDC 150MHD + 16 Megs RAM.