John Madden wrote:
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>>On (03/03/05 00:29), Paul Jakma didst pronounce:
>>>>>Problem is it's failing a fsck on boot (on /var) and can't continue
>>>until a manual fsck is performed on the drive, which requires the
>>>root pass!! So, boot -s etc. won't work in this case, because it'll
>>>still fail the fsck and still ask for the password.
>>>>>>>>You were prepared to reinstall with S10, so the existing OS can't be
>>that important, right? So why not just reinstall with NetBSD or
>>Debian Linux? (or do you specifically want Solaris?)
>>>>>>>There's nothing important on the machine, and I probably will rebuild it
>at some stage. I just kinda got locked onto the idea of finding a way
>around this problem.
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>Chat ya later,
>>John.
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>BOFH excuse #1: clock speed
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>>1. "stop a" to get to the boot prompt
2. boot net -s (generates a mini file system)
3. fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
4. mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a
5. TERM=sun
export TERM
vi /a/etc/shadow and take out the root password!
6. init 6
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