Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:02:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108290855140.59175-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <007b01c13068$92d74cc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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> If you have a Sun monitor and keyboard > for your Sparc there is a command key sequence that will dump the system into > it's BIOS which you can then issue a command to boot it single user and > once there change the root password to whatever you want. See > http://www.sun.com for more details. Stop-A on most boxes... Assuming you have the Type 5 KB... BTW, it dosen't have to be a Sparc CDROM drive... It just has to be a SCSI! I found a NEC SCSI Cdrom and External case at the Goodwil for $5, and it works great... :) (Plus a whole hoard of SCSI cables.) BTW... there is a FreeBSD-Sparc mailing list and port.. it's just really infantile due to everyone's time schedule... :( Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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