Re: Lost root password...

["Marko Dinic" <mdinic@chat.carleton.ca>]

> It's been awhile since I looked at the rescue floppy for potato on sparc,
> but my guess is that the ufs driver on that floppy doesn't include write
> support, which is an experimental option iirc. Do you have Sun
> installation media? you could boot that to change the pass, but you would

No, unfortunately I have no Sun instalation disks or CD's and I don't have a
CD-rom drive. I have a network card build in but I need the adapter to
ethernet (from the 25 pin port). How would I export my hard drive from the
bios so I can mount it from Debian? My main workstation is a Intel Debian.

> have probably done that already if that were the case. =) If you have
> access to another Debian box, you could use it to generate a custom .iso
> image, or you could mount the hard-drive on another box /w ufs rw support.

I'm willing to try both, I'm unfamiliar with creating custom iso's though.
By the second option you mean physicly remove the HDD and put it in another
box (that already has a bootable system)? Or can I just mount it ower the
network somehow?

Thanks,
Marko

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> Brian
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> How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for
> somewhere else..
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