[SunRescue] SPARCstation 2

[Paul Khoury - Tech Support]

At 11:37 AM 2/13/00 +0930, you wrote:
>HI! I purchased a SparcStation 2 for $100.00 and I am intending to load
>RedHat 6.1 for Sparc on it. However, I haven't got root's password or any
>other password for that matter to get to the SUNOS 5.3's command line. Being
>a newbie "son of SUN" is there anyway I can change root's password or access
>the system as the floppy and cdrom don't seem to search at boot-up so I am
>unable to use a system boot disk.

You should be able to get to an ok prompt, (STOP-A), then do boot cdrom.
I don't think you can change the passwd too easily, probably more trouble
than it's worth - and SunOS 5.3 is really Solaris 2.3 - It's pretty bad, so
you'd be better off with a higher version of Solaris (like 2.5+), NetBSD,
or Linux.
But YMMV...

Paul