Re: [PLUG] inconveniently broke a sun box

["William H. Magill" <magill@isc.upenn.edu>]

>   I have the pizza box on my lap right now.  I'm going to try building
>   readwrite ufs support into a linux kernel and mounting the drive in it.

Just boot it up into single user mode. At that point, it doesn't care about
/etc/passwd. (I don't think, but don't remember... If it does, you'll have
to physically mount the disk on another box.)

stop-a will get you to the prom prompt.
>boot -s

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