Re: Installed Stretch, but no command line
Ken Heard composed on 2017-07-23 23:20 (UTC-0400):
> All your suggestions require that I be able to boot the computer and
> log on as root from a tty, but as already explained I cannot do that.
> For rescue mode I need access to the original /etc directory. I
> looked for a way to do that but could not find one.
Have you tried reading the rescue section of the manual?
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch08s07.html.en
After booting the rescue media, you must mount the Stretch root filesystem if
the rescue startup didn't do that already for you. Figure out which one it must
be using 'fdisk -l' or 'gdisk -l'. If it appears to be /dev/sda3, then do:
mount -t -o rw auto /dev/sda3 /mnt
If successful, the Stretch /etc/ will be found at /mnt/etc/.
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