Re: Boot Floppy on Sparc

["BABA Yoshihiko" <baba_yoshihiko@example.com>]

I have forgotten to mention it. We only rent the machine and don't have the 
CD! (Don't ask me why, ask my boss)

>What about booting from the installation CD?
>
>
>BABA Yoshihiko wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have Sparc running Solaris 2.x, which cannot find user "root" and thus
> > cannot start up. I need to boot somehow to edit /etc/shadow.  But I just
> > found that Solaris itseld doesn't have boot disk and Linux boot disk 
>doesn't
> > support Solaris filesystem. I also found that I could mount the HD on
> > another Solaris and edit, which I don't want to do.  I might be wrong, 
>and
> > am giving a try to this mailing list. I appreciate any help in advance.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > BABA Yoshihiko
> > Daido Information Technology
> > +81 (0)3 3316 8321
> >


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