On Sat, 17 Aug 1996 17:54:51 EST 
 Fletcher Christian <Fletch2@ibm.net> wrote:

 > All are from the same place, the X term needs a driver program that I  
 > believe is on one of the HD's. Before I scrap HPUX I'd like to retrieve
 > this driver as getting it from HP has proved difficult.

Dang .. HP used to have a _lot_ of HP X terminal software available for 
FTP on hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com (a.k.a. dizzy.cv.hp.com), but I just checked 
there, and they seem to have drastically changed the nature of that 
server :-/  (real drag ... it used to be quite useful...)

 > So basically I was wondering if there was any way to get into the HPUX  
 > system. The thing boots up fine but I don't know the password. I've  
 > tried the rather unusual step of attempting to binary edit the ESDI  
 > drive on a PC, but it would appear that the Micropolis drives and my  
 > Adaptec controller don't get on.
 > 
 > Any suggestions other than trying a demon dialer style program?

Unforunately, HP, in their infinite wisdom, didn't provide a "boot into 
single-user mode" option (of course, the system v notion of runlevels 
that HP-UX used makes single-user somewhat ill-defined...)  I'm not sure 
of a way to get it to boot up into single-user short of making the fsck 
fail... You might try sending a SIGQUIT or SIGINTR to fsck (or some other 
important utility) during the boot process...

Other than that, it's been a _long_ time since I've really used HP-UX (I 
was quite happy when the University pretty much dumped it for 
NetBSD/hp300 :-), so I'm not sure I have any more suggestions...

Good luck!

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