On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:10:12 -0500 (CDT), Frederick Bruckman wrote:

>On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Nick Boyce wrote:
>
>> So in the end I rebooted from the NetBSD installation CD, exited the
>> installer, mounted my root partition, and edited wscons.conf back to
>> the default state again ... it was the quickest way out of this silly
>> mess.
>
>The quickest way out would have been to hit "SPACE" when you saw the
>boot prompt, boot to single user with "boot hd0a:netbsd -s", then run
>"passwd" from the single-user shell.=20

Ah .. but doesn't single-user mode demand the root password anyway
(like Linuxen seem to these days) ?   [I'm not at the box to try at
the moment]

>If it's up and running, and you
>don't want to cycle power, you can get the debugger prompt with
>"CTL-ALT-ESC", type "kill 1", then "c", and again, "passwd" from the
>single-user shell.

Ooo ... that sound scary ... what's that doing ?  Killing init ?!?

Thanks

Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
--
Spence's Admonition:=20
Never stow away on a kamikaze plane.