UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

OK! I am a newbie so please give me step by step details on what i need to do! I don't know what a stop key is. I think it is the one that looks like a spade. I don't know. Let me know what to do and I will be so grateful! The system is a Sun Fire system not an Intel system.

I mistakingly deleted my /etc directory yesterday when trying to free some space. I rebooted the server this morning and of course I cant get in to the OS. Well, when i boot the system, the monitor stays in power saving mode. How can I get this system to boot to a cd without seeing anything on the screen. I inherited this system so I haven't looked in the BIOS for the device boot order or anything. I installed Solaris 2.8 on this system using the boot cdrom a while ago, but I don't have access to see this prompt.

In the meantime, I will continue to look on the Internet for the answer to my problem.

Any help give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I got it... It finally came up and i was able to boot to the cd rom. Now i am doing a reinstall. It took a while for it to come up though. It kept recyling the boot process saying something about a memory dump. OK Cool!
Thanks for any help!!

you mat be interested in learning that removing the entire /etc directory is not a good idea when you are running out of free space

Yeah, I know that!
I was trying to remove everything in the /opt/netcool/.../etc and I was in the wrong etc directory. Thanks for pointing out my stupidity!