Recovering From A Damaged Or Misconfigured Network Configuration; Resetting Network Configuration For The Starter System - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER STARTER SYSTEM Installation Manual

Note that automatic file system checks will still occur if the starter system kernel detects
a problem with the filesystem.

Recovering from a Damaged or Misconfigured Network Configuration

If you need to change the network configuration of the starter system, use the following
process:
touch /unconfigured
Figure 37. Resetting Network Configuration for the Starter System
The starter system will update its network parameters as part of the restart.
If the NETWORK PARMS file does not exist or is unreadable for some reason, the IPL
process for NOVSTART will pause and allow entry of network parameters at the virtual
machine console.
Note that while YaST is available on this system, it is not functional in full-screen or text
mode until the network is configured. If you have a functional network, you can connect
to the starter system via ssh and update network addresses using YaST in the normal
manner.
As supplied, the system has no general user accounts defined. General users should be
provisioned on virtual machine servers built from the starter system, and thus defining
general users on the starter system is not recommended.
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1. Log into the starter system as root and type:
2. Shut down the starter system by typing shutdown -r now.
3. Log in to the NOVSTART id.
4. Update NETWORK PARMS to reflect the new network information. Refer to "Con-
figuring Network Connectivity to the Starter System" on page 22 for steps to use to
update NETWORK PARMS.
5. Log off the NOVSTART id.
6. Restart NOVSTART by typing XAUTOLOG NOVSTART from a privileged userid such as
MAINT or OPERATOR.