I need to re-format a Sun Ultra5 so I can sell it, but I have no password to
get in.
I think I need to halt the boot, make it boot to Solaris CD, and re-format
the drive. Could use some help with the commands to do this.
Thanks. -Michael
by michae » Sun, 22 Apr 2001 07:29:35
I think I need to halt the boot, make it boot to Solaris CD, and re-format
the drive. Could use some help with the commands to do this.
Thanks. -Michael
by Lon Stowe » Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:20:55
>I think I need to halt the boot, make it boot to Solaris CD, and re-format
>the drive. Could use some help with the commands to do this.
>Thanks. -Michael
That should give you an OK prompt.
Stick your O/S CDROM in and type 'boot cdrom'.
May not need to worry about it if the buyer knows how to
overwrite the root password from a cdrom boot.
Mount your root disk on the cdrom mountpoint /a, rw.
Then erase the password field for root.
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