9 Aug
2010
9 Aug
'10
11:38 p.m.
On 8/10/10 12:36 AM, dwight elvey wrote:
Is it a standard 50-pin SCSI-2 connector?
Solaris 1.0.1 is SunOS 4.1.2. The last of that series is 4.1.4_U1.
This is BSD-based SunOS.
Yes, that's pretty standard interrupt key sequence for Sun machines.
On a Sun keyboard, it would be "Stop" or "L1" (upper left key) plus
"A".
The standard OpenBoot prompt is "ok ".
What OS is it
booting? A lot of what we do will be determined by
that. It's likely SunOS 4.x, probably 4.1.x. Please find out for sure.
There is a CD ROM with it with Solaris 1.0.1. I 'm not sure if that
is what is in it though. I'll have to check. It doesn't have a CD ROM drive
or floppy but does have one of those Sun connectors on the back
that could go to a drive. Then...If you
can get to an OpenBoot prompt, you can type "boot -s" to
boot into single-user mode. That should get you straight to a root
shell if it's running the earlier BSD-based SunOS 4.x. Let me know
when/if you can get that far, then I'll help you through getting rid of
the root password.
I think I can get OpenBoot with just the pause-A as described on the
web pages. It says it is a model s1. It doesn't look like
any of the 3Gs I've seen
on the web. It is older LCD technology. About 10 years old. Maybe
from around the time of a Sparc5 or so.
I was using a 3GS (SPARCstation-5) in probably 1998 or so. The
S1...Hmm, there's something weird about the S1/S2 machines but I don't
recall what, and I don't recall where they fell in the line. I'll see
if I can jog my memory a bit.
I'm not a Unix heavy so I've no idea what to
do once I boot to
root?? Can I use passwrd or some such to reset the password?
I guess I'll have to learn a little.
You can use the "passwd" command to reset the root password, or you
can edit /etc/passwd directly and zero out the password for root. It's
the second colon-delimited field and it should be thirteen characters
wide. If you go that route, I can tell you what you'll need to do with
the "vi" editor in case nothing easier is installed.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL