Re: Sun SPARCStation LX

From: Jaleco (frogboy08_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/29/03


Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:42:24 +0800

Anthony Mandic wrote:
> 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
Dam, I was hoping I could pull it off without the need for a CDROM.

Thanks.

Jal



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