On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:
>
> > > One thing that may work is build a Linux box
> > > with the support for the Xenix/SysV file
> > > system and try to mount the drive from there
> > > and edit out the password in the password
> > > file.
> > >
> > > I've done that before with other Unix
> > > systems...
> >
> > I'd do that if this wasn't a PS/2 with the funky drive
> > connections. I don't have another PS/2.
>
> You could make a pair of Linux slackware boot/root floppies with the
> necessary FS support in a custom kernel on the bootdisk, and mount the
> drive, and do the necessary file editing in this manner.
Might want to check out this bootdisk:
http://www.toms.net/rb/
You would likely still have to compile a kernel with MCA and the other
options you'll need, but it has a good set of utilities.
-Toth
Received on Fri Dec 21 2001 - 02:46:53 GMT