Re: What are my options

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 00:00

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In <366987E7.2FF941E1@cufc.demon.co.uk> cufc <adrian@cufc.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Hi, have aquired a SS10, no monitor
>I can boot into Hyperterminal on my laptop and get to the login prompt,
>heres where the probs begin, This machine was sat in a cupboard for a
>number
>of years so no one has any idea of the root passwd.

What version of SunOS is installed on the disk? If it's SunOS 4.1.x then you
can get around not knowing the root password. With SunOS 5.x (aka Solaris
2.x), you can't log in without the root password, even into single-user
mode, unless you boot off a Solaris CD-ROM, and manually mount the root
partition of the disk to get at the password file that way.

>my next problem is I dont have an external SCSI CD-ROM, (I do have a
>back-pack
>parallel drive)prob no use, so are there any other options to installing
>either Solaris or
>linux on this machine, anybody got any ideas

I don't know if it's possible to boot from the Solaris CD via NFS on another
box (say a machine running Linux) since I've never done it myself, but I
believe it can be done.

Regards,

Craig.
-- 
            Sun Ripened Kernels -- http://www.zeta.org.au/~craig/srk
                Surplus and pre-loved Sun Microsystems equipment.
           Based in Waterfall (south-eastern Sydney), NSW, Australia. 
       Operated by Craig Dewick - craig@zeta.org.au - cd@lios.apana.org.au

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From: cd@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Subject: Re: What are my options
Date: 1998/12/06
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