Re: Possibly O.T. but need help

[Jean-Paul Blaquiere <japester@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>]

> On Oct 03, Michael Hicks illuminated with a virtual scribe  :

> You can try hitting Stop-A, and then telling the system to boot by typing
> in `boot s' (or maybe it's `boot -s', I forget).  This should hopefully
> bring the system up in single-user mode.  You might be able to get in
> without a password (it depends on how the system is configured).
> 
not if it's solaris.  you can't even pass an init=/bin/sh and get in
without a password :(
solaris is a bugger to get into without the root password.
check out http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc
and http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/install

for more info

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