May I suggest that you not trust the installation on the system. Get hold
of a distribution CD set and do a fresh installation. The installation CD
is bootable. The CD set is inexpensive; it used to cost $70 (us).

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Also, I received suggestions to use single-user mode via my serial
> console. (Thank you Rex and Volker.) After learning how to do this I was
> able to get into single-user mode and had a chance to login with the root
> password. Well anyways, I bought the SPARCstation via ebay and the seller
> gave me the wrong password.
>
> So now my next step is try mounting the SunOS filesystem (so I can reset
> the password). Hopefully, I can do this with a NetBSD/sparc boot disk. Any
> suggestions or hints on what floppy to use and what mount command/syntax
> to use?

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