[SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3GX problem

[Devin L. Ganger]

Vasisht Reddy Tadigotla wrote:

> I don't have a CDROM drive with the sparcbook and I don't have access to
> other SPARC systems. Is it possible to boot off a NetBSD floppy and mount
> the partitions ?

If you have access to regular SCSI CD-ROM external drive, you should be 
able to use it to boot off the Sparcbook.  I do this for mine.

You can download the Sun Solaris 9 ISO images.  Download and burn the 
Software 1/1 disk and boot off that (*not* the Installation disk).  When 
you get X started and get to the first prompt, you can right-click off 
into the background and bring up a separate shell.  Mount the c0t0d0s0 
device to /a and change to /a/etc.  From there, you can blank out root's 
  password in the shadow file.

Apart from taking the disk out and mounting it in another system, or 
netbooting, you don't have many options here.  You have to get booted 
into an operating system that support read/write of the Solaris UFS 
partition and get the current disk's root partition mounted on a system 
you control.

-- 
Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
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