this did the trick Thanks!!!!!!
At 02:00 PM 9/14/1998 -0500, you wrote: >> maybe im doing something wrong.. can you elaborate how when i boot from the >> rescue disk mount the Hdd without it booting up to login state? >> maybe a little hand holding is in order > >you don't want to use the boot disk that you made while installing, but >resc1440 itself. If you overwrote it during install, you need to >download it again. > >When the first screen to choose mono or video comes up, hit alt-f2 to >get to the console. > >then > > mount /dev/hda1 /target (assuming you're on hda1) > >ae /target/etc/shadow > >and the first entry will look something like > >root:0ydgf0ldjehtbp10479:0:99999:7::: > >change it to > >root::0:99999:7::: > >and root will have no password. > >however, writing the resc1440 will be difficult if you don't have a user >account that can write to /dev/fd0; you will probably need to boot into >dos and use rawrite2, or use another computer to make the disk. > >rick > >-- > > > >
