Subject: Re: Sparc Classic dilemma
To: Patrick Larkin <plarkin@beth.k12.pa.us>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/01/2000 11:22:59
> The good news is someone gave me a Sparc Classic.

> The bad news is that they didn't know the root password.

> I'm wondering how I can get NetBSD on this thing.  It has no floppy
> or CDROM drive.

Open it up, pull the disk, put it on another machine...at the very
least then edit /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow or /etc/master.passwd or
whatever); you might even be able to do the whole install onto the disk
on the other machine - I've done that on a few occasions.

Of course, this depends on having a suitable "other machine".

					der Mouse

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