Re: root password forgotten
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:00:28 -0800
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:01 PM -0500, Brian J. Zuk (brian@zukland.com) wrote:
> > I'd recommend Tom's Root Boot disk(http://www.toms.net/rb/). The boot
> > disk maker will run in Linux or Windows(shuts down windows and runs
> > Linux using loadlin). Boot the workstation with the Tom's disk
> > inside, follow the directions, mount the harddrive(/dev/hda?) and
> > either edit the password file and remove the root password or run
> > chroot and make a new root password.
[...]
> As good as TRB is, I'd hesitate to recommend it for this purpose for a
> few reasons. Principally, it still uses a 2.0.x kernel, and (AFAIK),
> the older style of ext2fs support. There was an incompatible break in
> format in the 2.2.x kernel series. Tom's also lacks support for ext3fs
> and reiserfs, both of which are showing up increasingly on newer and
> upgraded systems. You could update your TRB and use this, but would
> likely have problems with a stock boot disk.
>
> I'd probably pick the lnx-bbc project's bootable business card:
> http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
The last download of bbc I had didn't have ext3 support. I think it
would be better to create your own custom bootable disk. This is
relatively easy using the "bootcd" package, a set of scripts which lets
you "run your system from cd without need for disks." The only problem
with this approach is that you probably won't be able to run the BootCD
in another computer and it certainly won't help the original poster. But
you do get the kernel of your choice (the one you have in /boot) and the
lazy option not to fix your system, say, if all you want is to read some
debian-user mail (if you have your ~home and /etc configuration copied
to disk).
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