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How to fix without booting to anything!
It IS possible to fix this without booting to OS 9, or otherwise fiddling with your hard drive from remote. All you have to do is type this at the sh-2.05a# prompt:
sh-2.05a# mount -u -o rw /
Then you can copy the /etc/hostconfig~ file to /etc/hostconfig
sh-2.05a# cp /etc/hostconfig~ /etc/hostconfig
and Viola! your system is back to booting normally. [for the interested 'mount -u -o rw /' remounts your drive read-write so you can replace/edit the file that's causing the trouble. also, it appears that the utilities that manage the hostconfig file make a backup called hostconfig~. - I'm not sure if an empty file will do anything, but creating it empty might be worth a shot if you don't have anything else. Another option is to copy your existing hostconfig into /etc/defaults so you have it in an emergency. ] -Cheers!
Correction - and update
[Rob, please fix the typo in the above posting?!] The mount command above should read:
sh-2.05a# mount -u -o rw /
Without the -o it doesn't work. typo on my part. Also, I just checked and the file does NOT have to contain anything. Which means that all you have to do is issue the command:
sh-2.05a# touch /etc/hostconfig
and things will be good to go!
How to fix without booting to anything!
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