[geeks] So I'm sitting in front of my "new to me" SGI Indigo^2 (teal)...

[Lionel Peterson]

...and I'm suffering from a "lack of root" password. Any thoughts?

I've cleaned out the system (removed the solid layer of dust/gunk in
the screen over the card cage, covering that three-board Extreme
graphics option, along with other incidental dust), put it all back
together, and booted it up.

It has an R4000 CPU @ 100 MHz, w/1 Meg cache and 96 Meg RAM (one bank
open - can I put plain 16 Meg Parity SIMMs in there?). It boots up
fine, I went into maint mode and ran "hvinv - t" and got the low-down
on the unit... It is a base model with Irix 6.5 installed on a 4.5 Gig
HD (just like http://futuretech.mirror.vuurwerk.net/pcw5-93i2.html).

Any ideas on how to "get into" this box without root password? Failing
that, I have a rather extensive suite of CD-Rs of IRIX, I suppose I
could re-install... A quick pointer on setting up a plextor drive and
how to install Irix would be great too!

I also have another (purple) Indigo^2 that has better specifications
(R10K, Impact graphics, etc. - my friend got it from Patrick on this
list), but I have changed and forgotten the passwords, it too has a
recent install of Irix (6.5), IIRC... Patrick, are you out there? I
think your old accounts are still on it...

For now, I'll test the U2 I got for $15 ;^)

Thanks in advance!


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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