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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 03:45:59 +0100
From: George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org>
To: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
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Subject: Re: Help! - I'm Locked Out
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In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0E9@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>; from drewt@writeme.com on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:15:55PM -0700
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:15:55PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

[...]
> So I have no console access and I can't seem to boot from the floppies and
> perform an FTP install.  Burning a CD is out of the question for a few
> weeks.  Any ideas on how I can get this installed?
[...]

If you can get into singleuser mode (boot -s), a magic make 
buildworld/installworld will hopefully fix it.

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