Re: Sun SPARCStation LX

From: Anthony Mandic (od_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/29/03


Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:36:27 +1000

Jaleco wrote:
>
> I have a Sun SPARCStation LX with no cdrom and no floppy drive.
> This was given to me so that I could learn more about Solaris but he had
> forgotten the root password.
>
> I have tried booting the SPARCStation into single user mode which it
> then asks for a password (which he also forgot as the box had been
> sitting around for a large amount of months unused).
>
> Is there anyway I can login to this box as root?

        You will need to obtain a CDROM and a copy of a Solaris boot
        CD. Instructions on what to do next can easily be found by a
        trivial search on Google's newsgroups archive.

-am © 2003



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