Anyone familar with the HP 9000 700i Series computers?

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Tue Mar 9 14:32:15 2004

I believe I saw someone post the correct incantation later on the list than
the below email... interacting with ISL and doing hpux -is or somesuch.

Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone familar with the HP 9000 700i Series computers?


> At 02:59 PM 3/8/04 -0600, you wrote:
> >The age-old trick is boot to single user mode, then change the password
with
> >the passwd command.
>
> Well I've tried everything that I can think of and everything that
> everyone suggested. I get the ISL> prompt but I can't run PASSWD. The help
> screen says to use LS to display th ISL utilities. When I do that the only
> things listed are FS, HPUX and ODE. I tried to execute a couple of common
> programs like VI and it doesn't find them either. One of the Man pages
that
> I found online
> <http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux/isl.1m.html> said
that
> if you turn the Autoboot off and then load ISL that you will have access
to
> "any isl command name or the name of any utility available on the system"
> but that doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> HELP!
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> >
> >As I recall on HP-UX, during the boot process you'll see a line about
"init
> >something something"... I believe you hit space here, then type the same
> >init line but append "-s" to designate going to single user. If this
totally
> >vague and possibly inaccurate email doesn't help, let me know and I'll go
> >boot up a box to refresh my memory.
> >
> >Jay West
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
> >To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> ><cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>; "Steve Robertson"
<steven_j_robertson_at_hotmail.com>
> >Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 2:52 PM
> >Subject: Re: Anyone familar with the HP 9000 700i Series computers?
> >
> >
> >> Jay,
> >>
> >> Can you (or anyone else on the list) get around the password on one
of
> >> these? It's running HP-UX 9.05. The OS is installed on a MountainGate
> >> IncreMeg 1 Gb removeable hard drive (nice drive!) I found that this one
> >was
> >> used on the Final Assembly Test Station for the Predator Autopilot!
> >>
> >> Joe
> >>
> >> At 12:44 PM 3/8/04 -0600, you wrote:
> >> >700 series were graphical workstations
> >> >----- Original Message -----
> >> >From: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
> >> >To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> >> >Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:41 PM
> >> >Subject: Anyone familar with the HP 9000 700i Series computers?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> The title says it all.
> >> >>
> >> >> Joe
> >> >>
> >> >---
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> >>
> >
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> >
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