Unix Programming - Re: a SCO UNIX boot problem.pls.

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Re: a SCO UNIX boot problem.pls.

Bill Marcum

2005-10-24, 3:48 pm

On 18 Oct 2005 18:16:14 -0700, Stuart
<stnking@gmail.com> wrote:
> thank u .
> i do wanna recover the pwd and without reinstalling system......seems
> there's indeed some way to do it...
> boot from cdrom ,mount system disk on it ,and edit the pwd and shadow
> files.
> my problem is how to boot from cdrom,then?
> i tried to type "boot cdrom -s" and did not
> suceed......awful............
>
Is this a fairly modern PC compatible machine? If so, you go into the
BIOS and set it to boot from CDROM. If it's PC compatible but can't
boot from CD, try a tomsrtbt floppy (Google for "tomsrtbt").

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