A couple of weeks ago, I posted a panic message to the list about
the situation above, when I inadvertently deleted /usr from /etc/fstab
and was left with an unbootable system.
I would like to publicly thank the fifty-five people who responded with
excellent advice. even though it was a weekend.
Happy Christmas and a Guid New Year tae all on the list.
Anyway, the advice boils down to
a) (from me) Keep your head and look at the manuals!
b) use the facilities in /sbin (specifically mount) to get things going
c) echo and redirection always work (are intrinsic to Unix) so try eg.
echo "appropriate line" >> /etc/fstab
d) connect a CD-ROM, boot from it and install mini-root
e) one person, who thinks ahead, has diskless clients set up for each
type of machine on his net.
Happy Christmas and a Guid New Year tae all on the list.
John Hearns
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