Personal Decstation 25--reset button?

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From: Steve Timm
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 00:00

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Greetings..

I have recently acquired 3 Personal Decstation 25's, with no manuals.
These, unlike any DEC hardware I have seen before, don't have a little
white "reset" button on the back.

The problem is that they are set to attempt to mount a large set 
of files from a central campus NFS server, and fail to successfully 
boot if they can't get them.

Obviously the solution is to boot to single-user mode, change /etc/fstab,
and boot in standalone.  But how can I get to single-user mode with 
no reset button, and by extension no >>> prompt?

Also, does anyone have experience loading any operating system other than
Ultrix on such a machine?

Steve Timm

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