[ug-bosug] Re: Problem with Solaris Express Community Release b50

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On 1/20/07, Anand Bheemarajaiah <anand_bheemaraju at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Well we can do that any time right. I have installed solaris 3 times in
> last 2 days. i don't want to install it again. I just need to know some
> simple way of skipping it and going to login menu.
>
> I have a off topic question to ask, When i had installed solaris for the
> first time yesterday by mistake i had changed the login shell of root from
> /sbin/sh to /sbin/bash. so when i logged out and logged in again it used to
> say "No Shell" and come back to login prompt. Since i couldn't find a way
> out I just reinstalled Solaris again. My question is, was there any way by
> which i could have made it work without having to reinstall it ?
>
> regards,
> Anand B



For the shell problem, boot using failsafe mode. The root(/) filesystem gets
mounted onto /a. Edit /a/etc/passwd for the root user entry and reboot.

For the Installation related problem, I almost always install with the
options selected and choose to "Skip it at the end of OS installation".
Hasn't given any problem till now. But the difference is that I have limited
RAM and use the non-gui installer. The problem might be in the GUI
installer.
Does the GUI installer provide any option to access the shell (I haven't
seen the GUI)? If so you can switch mode and reboot the system from the
shell.
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