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- From: kohno@medicine.ics.kula.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Fujimasa Kohno)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: No loginwindow!!! Help with loginwindow.app
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.180534.29911@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 18:05:34 GMT
- References: <1993Jan12.055734.4013@cyantic.com>
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- In article <1993Jan12.055734.4013@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com (Mark T.
- Dornfeld) writes:
- > I think I overwrote the loginwindow applicatiion binary with a
- > loginwindow.tiff file. At any rate, my TC boots properly, but no
- > loginwindow appears on the screen. I am sure the system is fully booted
- > since rlogin and all standard UNIX operations work perfectly.
- >
- > The binary for loginwindow is now 49714 K large and its date is about
- > the time I was fooling around with loginwindows. Is this correct or
- > wrong?
- >
- > Can someone email to me
- > /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow ?
- > I should be able to put the app back in its place and be merrily on my
- way.
- >
- > Alternatively, I have been trying to mount the 3.0 CDROM with no
- success.
- > I am told there is no device at /dev/sd1 to mount. If I could mount the
- > CD, I could copy in loginwindow from there.
- >
- > Hope someone can help.
- > --
- >
- > Mark T. Dornfeld Voice: (416) 234-9048
- > CYANTIC Systems Facsimile: (416) 234-0477
- > 101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Email: mark@cyantic.com
- Can't you at least boot up from CD-ROM in single user mode
-
- ex. bsd(0,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd0 -s
-
- and mount harddisk drive?
-
- ex. mount /dev/sd1a /MyDisk
-
- I did it on several occasions and vice versa with no problem.
-