Re: Lost root password...
hmm i have been known to transplant a HD from one box into another. to this
purpose.
with SCSI this is quite easy. you need only halt the box that is giving you
troubble, and wire the SCSI bus with the offending drive into a bus on another
computer where no id conflicts will arise, then mount the offending drive and
fix the shadow file.
Apple 600e cdroms work well with all SUNs, and Computer Renaissance sells them
for like $50.
RH Linux has the "linux 1" at SILO to recover from this, might want to
investigate this option. An ounce of prevention and a pound of cure.
-
Robin-David Hammond
KPL
25-8D Van Zant
Norwalk CONN USA
Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics:
(1) An object in motion will always be headed in the wrong
direction.
(2) An object at rest will always be in the wrong place.
(3) The energy required to change either one of these states
will always be more than you wish to expend, but never so
much as to make the task totally impossible.
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Ragga Muffin wrote:
> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Lost root password...
> Cc: mdinic@chat.carleton.ca
>
>
> "Marko Dinic" <mdinic@chat.carleton.ca> wrote
>
> > 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?
>
> How about netbooting the Sparc ?
> Create a minimal nfsroot on your debian box with appropriate daemons,
> and then build a sparc kernel that supports sun volume labels
> and ufs.
> Reboot and mount the sun partition and edit the passwd.
> See the debian installation guide for details, it's not very
> difficult.
>
> HTH,
>
> Ragga
>
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