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

[Lionel Peterson]

--- James Braid <jamesb at digipost.co.nz> wrote:
> Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > ...and I'm suffering from a "lack of root" password. Any thoughts?
> Otherwise, boot off the IRIX installation CD into the miniroot, type 
> "sh" when you are in inst to get a shell, then you can chroot into
> the drive and reset the password using passwd.

OK, I am to the miniroot, I typed "sh", then went to "chroot" (a new
command to me), and got the following:

UX:chroot: INFO: Usage: chroot rootdir command [arg...]

Thoughts? I feel so close!

Thanks,


=====
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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