From: jvs@netcom.com (Jonathan Stockley) Subject: Re: SLS 99.2 problems Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 01:20:31 GMT
In article <-4=3z7-@rpi.edu> jfritz@ptolemy0.rdrc.rpi.edu (Joe Fritz) writes:
>... /etc/rc requires touch, but touch is installed in /usr/bin. Result:
>no /etc/utmp, no logins. The solution is to boot from the A1 and
>mount A2 as usual. Then mount you hard disk (both root and usr) and
>copy (or move) /usr/bin/touch to /bin/touch.
>
>EG:
>mkdir mount
>mount /dev/hda1 /mount #replace /dev/hda1 with root part
>cd mount
>mount /dev/hda2 /usr #replace /dev/hda2 with /usr part
>cp usr/bin/touch bin
>
>Now, you can reboot from the boot disk SLS created for you, and login.
Alternatively, you can edit the /etc/rc file and change the rm utmp;touch utmp
to be simply >utmp
This saves valuable root fs space by not having a copy of touch in /bin :-)
Jo