Grab a rescue/boot disk. The ILUG BBC should allow you to boot up the
machine and copy off everything onto another machine easily. Not sure of
a URL though.
If you haven't got a fast connection to the net then there are many
floppy disk boot/rescue disks around too.
Donncha.
cnb at eircom.net wrote:
>> One of our servers running RH 5.2 (yes it's ancient) was cracked into. I'm
> not able to log into it, just waits a few seconds and refreshes login
> prompt without returning an error. I suspect that login has been messed
> with in some way. Is there a way to take it from installation CD or another
> source? I'm trying to back up the server and reinstall but doesn't have a
> backup drive directly connected and can only get into machine in single
> user. I'm trying to use plip but can't set it up in single user mode of
> course.
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