Subject: Re: your mail
To: James Green <jamesg1@hotmail.com>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/25/2000 10:09:53
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, James Green wrote:

> Before I get to installing NetBSD (btw; thanx for all the hints :) I would 
> like to have a snoop around the hard disk.  The problem is that it's 
> previous owner is now dead, so there is no chance of getting the root 
> password.

Well, you can "crack" into the system, and set the system password.
Look at the VMS FAQ...

> I would probably like to mount the hard disk into a i386 Linux or i386 *BSD 
> box around here.  What format/filesystem would be on the disk?

ODS-2, which AFAIK no Unix system knows about.

	Johnny

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