Trying to resurrect my Netwinder

[Allan Anderson <cerebus@email.com>]

I'm in a bind with my old Netwinder. I'd like to get it running Debian 
again...I've got an install on there circa 1999, and I cannot for the 
life of me remember the root password. Since my original hard drive 
failed, I don't have a rescue partition.

So, I'm trying to install with the kernel, initrd, and boot.img from 
testing. I can load the kernel just fine, but I'm having trouble 
getting / mounted correctly. Do I need to use rdconfig and rdfile to 
specify boot.img? Or do I need to extract something and share it under 
NFS?

Thanks for the help.
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