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I've got a problem with a new out of the box Ultra 5 that is stand alone.

During the Interactive Setup I selected Solaris 8, 
English as the language, chose
a host name, made a selection (the question differed from what the
manual gave) that (I think) made the system standalone, changed the hours
portion of the time/date from 18 to 10, selected a root password
(which I have used for years on my other Sun system and therefore it is
unlikely that I mis-keyed it twice when entering it), and
chose no automatic power management but verify selection during booting.

When the system rebooted upon completion of the configuration sequence,
it complained about no responses from "a network", but has not done so
on later boots.

At the completion of the boot process, a login prompt appears.
Whether or not I am quick enough to enter an arbitrary user name (which
elicits a password pmompt, an asterisk-
framed message appears that says something about waiting for a login
screen. The CRT screen (very quickly) goes black and the machine appears to
be dead. Stop-Cntl A has no effect, so I have to cycle the power.

If after cycling power I select single user boot (Stop Cntl A works then),
the root password, will not work.

Changing the power management question to not ask on boot had no effect.

I prefer to make a simple fix if there is one. The only way I can think of
to get into the system is to load the mini-root from cd-rom and clear the
root password (can somebody tell me where the file is?)

Comments/suggstions? Thank you very much.

Rod Miller