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From: pask0010@gold.tc.umn.edu (t)
Subject: Locked out of Sparc 20 running Solaris 2.3
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Trouble with a Sun Sparc20 running Solaris 2.3

I was adding an external drive to a Sun and I mucked up the vfstab file.
When I rebooted it simply started rebooting itself saying it couldn't 
perform
fsck on the root.  I was able to get out that using ^C and I was 
eventually 
able to get a command line, but it wouldn't let me write to the root file 
system
so I can't update vfstab.  Is there anyway to get around this and regain
write access.  I'm running as su so I don't and the premissions are set 
correctly, so there is something else blocking me from writing.

Any help or insight would be appreciated.
Particularly if you could tell me if the system is really truely hosed 
beyond repare.  

OH, also it has no disk drives or CDRom, but it is connected to a 
network.

Thanks in advance.

Tom Paska

email: pask0010@gold.tc.umn.edu

