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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: A host of freebsd bugs
Message-ID: <D2v1Bw.K34@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <3fkp1d$2r2@satisfied.elf.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 13:26:20 GMT
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In article <3fkp1d$2r2@satisfied.elf.com> *Hobbit* <hobbit@asylum.sf.ca.us> writes:
>There is no way to get a SHELL out of the earlier stages of sysinstall
>to try and fix any of this.

This is most inconvenient.  If you want to install by hand it's really
handy to have a bootable floppy that gives you a single-user shell.

-- Richard
-- 
Satan himself, in a sermon preached from the pulpit of North Berwick
church, comforted his many servants by assuring them that no harm could
befall them "sa lang as their hair wes on, an sould newir latt ane teir
fall fra thair ene".                    - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough