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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 2014 08:39:50 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To:        Kriszta Riho <krisztina.riho@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Information needed for Dolch 386 portable computer =?ISO-8859-1?Q?1985=B4s?= with freeBSD i386
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Hi,

On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 19:30:54 +0200
Kriszta Riho <krisztina.riho@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi There,
>=20
> I inherited a vintage Dolch 386 portable computer 1985=C2=B4s which has
> freeBSD i386 on it and I would like to reset the computer for to use
> it. I do not want recover the information or data which is on it,
> only reset it, but now it asks me password and login and I do not
> have this information. Could you please, let me know who could help
> me or which programme I need to reset the portable computer?
>=20
you should be able to boot into single user mode and then change
whatever you want.

As it has a 80386 CPU, you will have to stick with an older FreeBSD
version. The 32 bit version indicates to run on a i386 but it actually
needs a 80486 CPU.

Erich



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