Date: 27 Oct 2000 23:53:21 -0000 From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: GERRYGM@aol.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive, read only Message-ID: <20001027235321.6836.qmail@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <94.b4758a5.272b173d@aol.com>
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GERRYGM@aol.com writes:
| Hi,
| I was given a Gateway 2000 Colorbook, with FreeBSD, the guy that gave it to
| me does not remember the root password.
You can boot the machine in single user mode, mount all your disks and
run the command:
# vipw
This will let you clear the current root password. Then you can log
into the system and set whatever root password you like.
| I have the FreeBSD Ver.3.2. When I tried to use Partition Magic it
| said the drive is read only.
This is probably because Partition Magic does not know about FreeBSD
partitions, and it refuses to touch them.
- giorgos
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