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Re: How to undo NetMgr change - sys won't boot...

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From: robert w. layhe
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 14:30

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In article <lux.715369828@sol.UVic.CA> lux@sol.UVic.CA (Michael O'Henly)  
writes:
> 
> 	I mistakenly set NetMgr...Local...Broadcast address to the IP
> address for my machine. (It's not on a NetInfo network, just connected
> to the campus Ethernet).
> 
> 	Now, the boot process gets to a point where it's saying
> "netinfo timeout, sleeping" (shortly after "starting rpc and net
> services") and then hangs.
> 
> 	How can I reset NetMgr...Local...Broadcast Address to
> "default" (assuming that's what I should do at this point)?
> 
> 	Thank you in advance...
> 
> 	Michael.
> --
> Michael O'Henly                 
> McPherson Library                Internet:  lux@sol.uvic.ca
> University of Victoria                      lux@uvvm.uvic.ca
> Victoria, B.C., Canada             BITNET:  lux@uvvm
my suggestion would be to boot single user and edit the hostconfig file in /etc  
and put in the correct info in each variable.  then reboot in multiuser mode.

robert
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