Re: Locked out of system.... how do I replace a corrupt inittab file?

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From: Ignacio
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 00:00

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On Mon, 03 Aug 1998 00:44:27 GMT, www@plexus-technologies.com (Dean
Malandris) wrote:

>I had a bit of an accident and corrupted the /etc/inittab file in Slackware.
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>Any suggestions as to how I can force my way in and do the fix?
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You didn't quite say all of what you have already tried, so I'm going
to assume that you've already tried mounting /dev/hda3, etc. :) It may
be that /dev/hda3 does not in fact exist. If not, you'll have to
create it yourself. Try 'man mknod'. /dev/hda3 is a block device with
a major device number of 3 and a minor device number of 3. Once you
have done that, you should be okay, but I can't be 100% about that.

Ignacio  <ivazquez@mapson_hotmail.com>

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From: ivazquez@mapson_hotmail.com (Ignacio)
Subject: Re: Locked out of system.... how do I replace a corrupt inittab file?
Date: 1998/08/03
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