On Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:35:27 -0500 
 lelsoft1@usa.nai.net (Jonathan Lyons) wrote:

 > Ok, it booted!(and this time I know it did) But when it asks me for
 > pathname of shell, I have no idea what to put in. I put in "root" says
 > "can't exec root for single user:permission denied" and then defaults to
 > sh....what do I do???

The default is fine... "root", BTW, is a directory in / ... /root (the
superuser's homedir :-)  Hence the permission denied...

At that prompt, you can enter any valid shell ... /bin/sh, /bin/csh, etc.,
so long as the file system it's on is mounted.  The default is /bin/sh,
which is fine for most purposes.

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