To get back a hosed screen, also try: stty sane ^j (That's Ctrl-j there.) You might be flying blind, but just do it and you might get your screen back. You

To get back a hosed screen, also try: stty sane ^j (That's Ctrl-j there.) You might be flying blind, but just do it and you might get your screen back. You probably know this, but to rescue a hosed system with Knoppix or similar live-cd: - Boot from CD. - Open root console. - Mount your usual root partition: mount -t somefs /dev/hda1 /mnt/oldsys - chroot /mnt/odlsys /bin/bash Showed that to another admin who'd lost a production box, and his chin kind of hit the floor :) I gifted him the Knoppix disk... You can also use that to reset passwords (as per the article), by editing /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd in the /mnt/oldssys directory.