If /etc/system file is corrupted how will you recover it ,
if we dont have a CDROM then what is the procedure?

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If /etc/system file is corrupted how will you recover it , if we dont have a CDROM then what is th..

Answer / narayanamoorthy

ok boot -a
It will boot iteractivelly

It will ask questions to boot the system

Insted of /etc/system place the file called /dev/null

afer the system come up just copy /dev/null to /etc/system

that it it will work..

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If /etc/system file is corrupted how will you recover it , if we dont have a CDROM then what is th..

Answer / chari

if /etc/system file corrupted we will use backup tapes and
recover it.if at all we r having no backup then we will go
to ok prompt and copy the file /dev/null file to the
/etc/system.
/dev/null file copies the default contents to the
/etc/system file to boot the sys

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