HaXXors command line challenge
As I mentioned in another thread, I have a machine with a dead monitor. I have tried to access files on the machine by networking with a notebook, but apparently file sharing is turned off on the machine with a dead monitor. What I want to do is to boot directly into the command line, and turn on file sharing form there - but remember I have no monitor, so I can't see what I am doing. Does anyone know exactly how to do this? Any advice would be appreciated.
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Connect both the machines via Fire Wire,
boot the good computer first
when you boot the bad computer hold down the "T" key
it will boot as a removable drive on the good computer.
If you don't enable it now, at some crucial point in the future when you need this functionality most it will not be enabled and you will kick yourself.
1) Wait for it to boot normally
2) Option - Up-arrow
3) Enter
4) Type ">console"
5) Enter
this then drops you to a command line login, put in the username and password
Then you need to bring up the network interface. Do this with something like "ifconfig en0 192.168.0.2" or whatever you want your IP address to be. But I can't work out how to enable sharing. The best I can do is mount a writable windows share. You can do this with something like:-
mount -t smbfs //GRAF@MACHINENAME/SHARED /mnt
You'll have to make sure /mnt exists, and i prompts you for a password to use to connect to the share. You can then copy stuff to /mnt and it'll appear on your windows share.