From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 16:04:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA21217 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:04:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from bambi.pomona.edu (bambi.pomona.edu [134.173.64.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA21148 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:04:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from POMONA.EDU by POMONA.EDU (PMDF V5.0-4 #12356) id <01I0ML5S0E7A8WZW02@POMONA.EDU> for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:03:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:03:40 -0800 (PST) From: JOHN Subject: DOH! Installed DES, am locked out now... To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I0ML5S0F548WZW02@POMONA.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"questions@freebsd.org" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm sorry, I know this has been discussed, I think I even read the solution but forgot. I installed DES on my computer, and now can't log in under any account. How do I boot up and mount my root directory as root without a password. Can this be done from the BOOT prompt, or do I need a boot diskette, because I don't have the latter. Thanks John