For various reasons, I need to break into an abandoned Ultra 5 with Debian
installed, to back it up and make sure it wasn't doing anything important.
Unfortunately, the owners no longer have the root password for it, and the
previous person working on it left it set to require a root password to boot
it single user.

So I could really use a Sparc compatible rescue CD or live CD. What's the
easiest and best one to use? The Debian installation CD's? Would I just need
the first CD for that? (I really, really don't want to have to download all
12 of the Debian 3.1 Sparc CD's.)