[geeks] So I'm sitting in front of my "new to me" SGI Indigo^2 (teal)...

[James Braid]

>Lionel Peterson wrote:
> OK, I am to the miniroot, I typed "sh", then went to "chroot" (a new
> command to me), and got the following:
> 
> UX:chroot: INFO: Usage: chroot rootdir command [arg...]

chroot /path/to/mounted/root

should work :-)

Otherwise, somewhere in inst there should be a shroot (? something like 
that) option which will dump you into the old root filesystem in a 
shell. Otherwise, manually editing /etc/passwd on the mounted old root 
should work.

Cheers, James