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Article #8231Re: How to get back to Sun's setup screen...
From: Ajay Patel
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 18:40
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 18:40
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In article <2789@brchh104.bnr.ca>, gwf@sapphire.bellcore.com (George W. Fleming) writes:
|> When you start up a Sun for the very first time, and when you've just
|> installed OS4.1.1, you get a menu screen asking you to enter some network
|> informations (hostname, IP address, NIS, etc.). Does anyone know how to
|> reset the Sun to this initial state?
|>
|> It would be nice to simply bring up this screen again instead of changing
|> the information manually in /etc.
|>
|> George W. Fleming
|> gwf@sapphire.bellcore.com
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There are scripts under /usr/etc/install that will unconfigure your system.
The one that you are looking for is /usr/etc/install/sys-unconfig. This
script will cause your system to revert to a blank system, that is, it will
not have a hostname and will not know about the network or any machines on
the network. A gracefull shutdown is performed and upon reboot you will be
prompted for the pertinent information.
Hope it works out. I have tried it on Sun 3/80s and it has always worked
for me. Good Luck!
Note : For the 3/80s or Sun3s the scripts are under /usr/etc/install/script
while for Sun4 the scripts are under /usr/etc/install.
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