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Re: Etch installation media doesn't boot (neither NETINST CD, nor floppies), but other distros do... :-(



On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:29:30 -0900
Siraaj Khandkar <sirconquer@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 16 Feb 2008, at 05:10, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> >
> > If your Dell has a unix-type OS on it, you could use the debootstrap
> > install method from the installation manual.
> 
> It currently runs Red Hat 7.1, but the trouble is that now that it  
> has been decommissioned for over a year - no one remembers the root  
> password to it anymore :-(
> 

For red hat boxes that old, you can boot them in single user mode
without it asking for a password.

> <snip>

-- 
Kushal


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