Hi Gang, Recently acquired an old Sun SPARCstation-1. It boots! - but I don't know the root password - Guy who gave it do me did so because he was moving, and I can't locate him now. Got Solaris 2.6 CD/docs with it, so I figured I'd just reinstall a fresh system. Can't get it to boot from CD. When I power on the system, hit STOP-A to get to the boot prompt, then do: boot sd(0,6,2) It thinks a while, then I see one access to the CD, and I get the message: (From memory so not exact quote but pretty close): "The magic character in the label is incorrect. The file loaded, but it does not appear to be executable". Tried everything I can think of, but this is the only response I am able to get which involves any CD activity at all. Same procedure works perfectly on a Sparc-2 - boots right up off the CD. I'm assuming that this CD works on the Sparc-1, because A) it came from the same source at the same time (not a guarantee), and B) It's GOT Solaris 2.6 already booting on it (I just can't login) - I'm guessing that it was installed from this CD. Also tried a Solaris 2.7 CD that I have onhand - exactly the same result. Anyone have any insight to offer? Regards, Dave Dunfield -- dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Vintage computing equipment collector. http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html