hello all,

this question isn't fully on topic but i had good experience with
other port- netbsd lists with question concerning related machines, i
apologize if this is considered to off topic for this list.

i came into possession of a sparcstation 5 with some goodies (2
external hdds, external tape streamer, keyboard, mouse, 13w3 to VGA
adapter). after hooking it up to a monitor that could handle the
signal and booting it i ended up in the login screen. as more often
with these system it once belonged to some company and was passed on a
few times, so the chances of ever getting to know the password is
zero.

im now wondering what to do, one thing im kinda sure about is wanting
to keep solaris for now (this is pretty much the most off topic part),
never worked with it and just want to take a look around.

i see two options:

1) take the hdd out and put in another machine, mount it and edit the
passwd file (or something like that, whatever solaris uses)

2) netboot the machine from some other system and then mount the hdd
and edit the passwd file.

the problem with the first option is that the hdd is scsi and i don't
have any other running systems with a scsi controller. it's also in a
special kind of case that you can pull out so im not sure if you can
just hook that up to another controller.

the second option might work better, i once netbooted an uVax so i
assume it could work with the sparc also. just not sure how to make
that work as the system boots and doesn't really stops anywhere until
i get the login screen. but im sure that would be explained in a
netboot howto or such.

im i making sense here or am i missing something obvious? any insight
would be welcome.

thanks in advance,
bart