Re: newbie idiot

From: Jared Richardson (jaredRMV-richaTHSrdson_at_nc.rr.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:19:48 GMT

Good greif!

Download Knoppix http://www.knoppix.org It's a bootable Linux cd. Doesn't
touch the hard drive unless you ask it too.

Stick it in the cd, boot to Knoppix. Mount the hard drive. Blow away the
admin password. Reboot to a system with no root password, set one, move
one. Then, realizing how easy Knoppix was to use... ;)

Seriously, a good bootable Linux CD can save from this sort of things. Go
check out the recent Slashdot thread on bootable linux distros.

"Mal" <frenchcanadian@REMOVETHISsympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:M8N%b.21006$253.1319441@news20.bellglobal.com...
> tks all for the help, I unfortunately used the drastic method and
> re-installed it. Wasn't no big loss cause it was installed yesterday.
>
> mal
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> "William Winkler" <ouiNOouiliSPAMouinqui@yahoo.nospam.com> a écrit dans le
> message de news:c1nv3e$e7$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu...
> > Maybe you should try the other method Nils suggested, booting from the
> > installation CD.
> >
> > When the boot prompt comes up, enter "linux rescue". After a couple of
> > questions, it will mount your Linux root partition and tell you how to
use
> > the chroot command. After chroot, you can use the passwd command.
> >
> > "Mal" <frenchcanadian@REMOVETHISsympatico.ca> wrote in message
> > news:W0K%b.18090$Mo4.608054@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > > I tried again now when it boots up it hangs at line: INIT-2.05b
> > >
> > > Mal
> > > "Mal" <frenchcanadian@REMOVETHISsympatico.ca> a écrit dans le message
de
> > > news:sVJ%b.18086$Mo4.607269@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > > > I added : add "init=/bin/sh" withouth the "'s at the end of that
line
> > > > pressed enter to save changes and b to boot
> > > >
> > > > system then boots up and problem still persist
> > > >
> > > > mal
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Nils O. Selåsdal" <noselasd@frisurf.no> a écrit dans le message de
> > > > news:slrnc3upq2.dh0.noselasd@utelsystems.dyndns.org...
> > > > > In article <VqJ%b.20239$253.1292208@news20.bellglobal.com>, Mal
> wrote:
> > > > > > tried it twice and it doesn't work
> > > > > >
> > > > > > in kernel this is what I get
> > > > > >
> > > > > > grub edit>kernel /vmlinuz-2-4-20-30.9 ro root=LABEL=/
hdd+ide-scsi
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I took out : '' hdd+ide-scsi'' and replaced it with :
> "init=/bin/sh"
> > > > yes
> > > > > > without the ('')
> > > > > No need to take out that, but it shouldn't matter.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What I'm I doing wrong?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > When I said root file Its a directory called root wich I cannot
> > access
> > > > > Cause you are not the user(root) which have permissions to that.
> > > > >
> > > > > Now, define did not work. What happend ? when you did the above.
> > > > > What did you do afterwards ?
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards
> > > > > Nils Olav Selåsdal
> > > > > System Engineer
> > > > > w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
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