2. Assuming this thing has some version of Solaris on it,
would it be possible to move the hard drive to a FreeBSD system,
mount the disk, and change the root password? (Among other
changes in /etc)

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Wes Groleau

A bureaucrat is someone who cuts red tape lengthwise.

"Wes Groleau" <groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote in message
news:YzJte.8790$pa3.3333@newsread2.news.atl.earthl ink.net...
> 2. Assuming this thing has some version of Solaris on it,
> would it be possible to move the hard drive to a FreeBSD system,
> mount the disk, and change the root password? (Among other
> changes in /etc)

Download Solaris cd's if you don't already have them, and reinstall the
machine, I'd say. Why go through all the hassle of recovering the current
install ?


Derkjan

Derkjan wrote:
> Download Solaris cd's if you don't already have them, and reinstall the
> machine, I'd say. Why go through all the hassle of recovering the current
> install ?

No CD burner, no bandwidth, no money, and no Sun keyboard. That's why!

:-)

Besides, it might have something else on it, and I'd like to see.

--
Wes Groleau

A bureaucrat is someone who cuts red tape lengthwise.

Wes Groleau wrote:
> Derkjan wrote:
>
>> Download Solaris cd's if you don't already have them, and reinstall
>> the machine, I'd say. Why go through all the hassle of recovering the
>> current install ?
>
> No CD burner, no bandwidth, no money, and no Sun keyboard. That's why!
>
> Besides, it might have something else on it, and I'd like to see.

A freeBSD expert pointed out to me that the big-endian/little-endian
difference means that some fields of partition tables will appear to
be corrupt if I try to mount a SPARC disk on an Intel machine.

--
Wes Groleau

I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming
intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared
from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with
the release of MS-DOS.
-- Larry DeLuca