10 Feb
1999
10 Feb
'99
5:51 a.m.
Brian,
Did you forget to send the rescue disks? I never got them. I bought
three more 7300s with manuals and disks yesterday. One is a basket case,
one has power but won't boot and the other works but I can't get into it
even with the diagnostics disk. I got into the 3B1 that I have by using
INSTALL but install and tutor don't work on the new one. The previous owner
has forgotten his user name and password. If you can send me a rescue disk
so that I can get into this one I'd appreciate it.
Joe
At 11:18 AM 2/25/98 -0600, you wrote:
In message
<3.0.1.16.19980221112523.480f6ac8(a)intellistar.net>et>,
rigdonj@intellis
tar.net writes:
Brian,
Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll try them. I bought the 7300 at a
trift store so I don't have any of the disks or documentation or know any
of the account names. I expect a rescue disk may be required. hint! hint!
Ok, just send me your mailing address and I'll send you a copy. It's
really two disks, one with the same kernel version as you have (3.51)
and on with a stand-alone floppy file system with just a few programs
also from a 3.51 system. You boot off the one and then it will ask
for you to insert the root file system. Once you insert that disk and
hit return, you'll get a single user root prompt after a few seconds.
Then you can mount the hard drive:
/etc/mount /dev/fp002 /mnt
and edit the password file:
ed /mnt/etc/passwd
Once you're done, unmount the hard drive:
/etc/umount /dev/fp002
and you can reboot.
Thanks for the URL of your webpage I certainly
check it out.
Hope it's useful.
Brian