Patrick, What's "Tom's Rescue Disk"? Is it the standard Debian Rescue image, or something else? (I missed it in your thread somewhere...)
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks one and all. I tried two approaches: > - at LILO prompt I typed linux init=/bin/bash. This failed because the / > partition mounted read-only > - used Toms Rescue Disk. This allowed me to edit /etc/passwd and > /etc/shadow. Success! > > Thanks for the help! > > Patrick > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio & Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | "May the Source be with you." | +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
