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From: Stephen Hernadi
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:37

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 I have this major problem with the NeXTstation in our
lab. I really messed up the files needed for booting, such as
/sdmach and /usr/etc/mach_init ... now the machine won't even boot
to single-user mode.  I could fix the boot files if I can become root
somehow ( I have copies of the correct files in / ). 
so what to do now? can I boot from a floppy, and how do I create a 
boot floppy? I tried booting from our server on the net, 
but all I get is lots of error ; I don't know what I have to do 
to boot off our server somehow. We dont have optical disk drive.
   I don't mind even if I have to rebuild the
hard disk, nothing crucial will be lost; but how do I do that if
I can't boot?
We are running NeXTStep 2.0 at the moment.
many thanks for any suggestions,
Istvan
hernadi@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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