That is what I was originally trying to do, but I didn't do it properly.

I'm using a cobalt qube 2, so I'm going to try to boot it in single 
user mode using a simulated dumb terminal today and try Frederick's 
suggestions. I am optimistic that it will work..

Thank you all,
Nicholas


On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 08:19  AM, Rasputin wrote:

> * Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com> [1210 20:10]:
>> Jeremy had the answer, but the overall rule is:
>> don't change root's shell.
>>
>> 1) I tend to run "sudo zsh"  on machines I want root on.
>> 2) the big danger is that your new shell is
>>    a) not on the root partition
>>    b) can't get to any shared libraries it needs.
>
> I find that sh makes fat fingering commands more likely,
> so I install pkgsrc/shells/static-bash and copy it to /bin.
>