> okay I live in melbourne and this one seemed too good to pass up, so
> basically I have got the machine, need to fix the system password, but I
> have some documantation on how to do that so no real problems there...
>
> Okay what It came with
>
> The machine as listed abouve, including all of the leads, so I have no
> hassles connecting up a terminal as it came with the mmj serial line. A
> vt440 and a huge old laser printer.
>
> But the big thing is that when I spoke to darren about th machine, he said
> that it came with all of its manuals.
>
> when he said all he wasn't kidding, I am still sorting out the 5 boxes or
> so of folders and manuals there are heaps, programmer refernce manuals all
> sorts of manuals I will provide a good list when I have finished sorting
> everything out...
>
> So a good find....
> And one I never thought I would see here, it allways seems that the free
> stuff is allways in the USA...
>
> Joy
>
>
> Benjamin Gardiner
>
>
Hmmm Replying to ones own message, grrr
I can't seem to change the system password, here is what I am doing point
out anything wrong...
I am flolowing the directions from:
http://www.vaxarchive.org/swdoc/vms/txt/vmsfaq.txt
(the section MGMT5)
at the >>> prompt I have entered b/1 this gets me to the SYSBOOT> prompt
all good so far.
then I type the followning commands:
SET/STARTUP OPA0:
SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0
CONTINUE
this gets me to the $ prompt then I type
SPAWN
_at_SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP
And from the VMS faq this leads me to believe that it sould boot up and
leave me logged in to the console. and then I could change the password.
this doesn't seem to occur, it seems to boot up normaly, and then ask for
user/password...
Is there anything I am doing wrong? I am using VMS 6.1 if thats a help
THanks heaps
Benjamin
Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 00:25:56 BST