Subject: Need boot floppy to mount HD!
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Alicia da Conceicao <amail@dolphin.eric.on.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/09/1995 19:07:45
Greetings NetBSDers! Is there anyway that I can get NetBSD boot floppy(s),
that will let me mount an existing NetBSD drive? The NetBSD boot floppy(s)
should have some type of limited kernel, environment, and filesystem (with
a mount binary). I can't use the install floppies, since I don't want to
loss the data on my NetBSD hard-drive.
The reason why I need this was because I accidentally corrupted the
"/etc/spwd.db" file, and can no longer login. To make matters worse, my
system is in protected mode, so I can't even login as root in single user
mode. :-( If I could get some boot floppy(s) to mount the NetBSD file-
system on my hard-drive, then I can restore the password files from
backup.
That type of boot floppy(s) exist for Linux, so I am hoping a NetBSD
equivalent is out there somewhere, although I can't find it. If it doesn't
maybe there is a way of getting boot floppy(s), from some other OS (like
Linux, FreeBSD, BSDI, etc.) to mount the NetBSD filesystem on my hard-drive?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.
Sincerely, Alicia.
PS. Please send any responses to "alicia@dolphin.eric.on.ca". Do not respond
to "amail@dolphin.eric.on.ca", since that is the mailing list address
for my site!
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