Hi... I am a newbie in the world of unix and want to learn but yet at the same time, I just managed to hose my inherited Unix box. Hopefully one of the experts out there can help me out of this mess with detailed steps. I have a Linksys router that was configured to have a static IP address because I needed to run a web server (192.168.1.152). My other two PCs were manually configured to have these IP addresses respectively (192.168.1.150 & 192.168.1.151). Therefore while installing Sun Solaris 8, I tried to configured it to be 192.168.1.153 and used IPv6 with the DNS and the domain of my cable modem at the same time. Somehow, I must have selected DHCP as well because the install I think did not complete and now whenever I boot the unix box, I get this error message: ifconfig:hme0: wait timed out, operation still pending... /sbin/dhcpinfo: interface not in appropriate state for command Hostname: unknown The system is coming up. Please wait. Checking ufs filesystems /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6: is stable . . . Abort - core dumped Configuring network interface addresses: hme0 Abort - core dumped in.rdisc: No interfaces up The IP address previously set on the network interface is no longer available. The system state is corrupted. System identification can no longer continue. Press return to continue. When I pressed continue, all I get is an endless loop of asking me to press to continue. My question is: 1) How do I get out of this mode when I boot up the machine long enough to get a break to re-install the OS? 2) While installing the OS how do I configure the box so that I can get it hook up to my cable modem using static IP address? What are the files do I have to changed? Should I install it as non-networked and then go in and make changes to the files to get the box hooked up to the network? I have been doing a search for help on the net but couldn't find any solutions. Hope you can help me out of this big mess that I had created. Thanks in advance, Unix Newbie

Hit control-c as often as required during the boot process to kill all network processes coming up. at the prompt type sys-unconfig . It will say something threating about clearing all the network values and rebooting. go ahead. when it comes back, answer all the questions again and all is well. the linksys will be your default router. After it comes up run this command echo "ip_address_of_linksys" > /etc/defaultrouter