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A random NeXT thing occured to me.  If memory serves, to install NeXTStep or OpenStep, you have to boot from the floppy image first, which then kicks the machine over to the CD ROM drive.  The way I did it, as the cube has no floppy drive, was I installed the full OS on one of the NeXT slab workstations, then I attached a second "target" drive, and ran the BuildDisk app.  This will automatically format the second drive, and fully clone the OS install of the host to the target drive.  A handy app, which every OS should have.

http://www.shawcomputing.net/resources/next/hardware/boot_floppies/boot_floppies.html
Helpful hint:  The NeXT will try to boot from whichever disk has the lowest SCSI ID.

Password?  Rich says:
Try NewEra or NewEra2
Yes, and if it's not the same as the one I gave you, you will have to "break in".  There is a key sequence, or hold down, or something that will get you into the firmware, then you can command line boot it into single user mode, and from there you can reset the password.


route add 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1

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...Because of the main error (dns issues) serveral servises are not starteting or in a non-working condition. 

For DNS you have to (re-)start the nsd for example. 

Whats happend if you start trying 

CODE: SELECT ALL
/etc/init.d/network stop


and than

CODE: SELECT ALL
/etc/init.d/network start


This init script does start a lot of things and its the same what using during boot. 

Maybe another solution can be to use the GUI which can overwrite some br0ken config. 

regards 
Joerg