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From: hack@moxie.lonestar.org (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: how do I resurrect an old tower
Keywords: ncr tower
Message-ID: <3430@moxie.lonestar.org>
Date: 21 Oct 90 15:30:42 GMT
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extel@quagga.uucp (Dr. Eberhard Lisse) writes:

>At the University of Namibia they have an old tower
>lost the root password

If you don't have an original NCR "install" tape for it, get one from NCR.

With the tape, you can build a mini-root file system in the
swap area of the hard disk, and will not over-write data on
the other disk partitions.

You'll have the option to break out out of the install sequence,
and get a root shell. Then you can mount the real root partition
and change the password file.
--
Greg