I just got a used sun ultra enterprise 450 and need to get a username and password. If I cannot get easily how do I reinstall the OS. What OS can I put on its? I am new to some equipment. It also came with a a storage unit for extra hard drives and how would I use it and set it up also?

It now says type ctrl-d. What do I do what do?



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I am trying to install Solares 10. I can to the ok prompt when I type boot CD-ROM -s nothing happens. So what do I do. I promise stop a and to get ok prompt quality is looking for network hardware. otherwise it says tight crtl-d.

The drive storage is StorEDGE D1000

Sounds like a system I used to run.

The Sun E450 takes a LONG time to boot after a reconfigure. I remember it took me an 90 minutes between boots. Now, it could be the - between CD and ROM. A similar post to Google groups indicates there might have been a problem with a specific CD release.

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What do you mean by this? You are taking over responsibility for this machine?

I have reinstall the os to go or it says type ctrl-d.

If you are not sure about the user name and password, what you can do is boot the system with cdrom in single user mod as below

Once system is booted, mount the root file system to /a and edit the /a/etc/shadow file and remove the encrypted password which is there after root:----:, delete the second columns assuming that each is separated by ‘:’. Then umount the file system and reboot it again as normal. You will able to logging to system as root user .

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Sorry I couldn’t see you last post

Can you check if cdrom is the alias given to CD drive? On OK prompt give devalias and check if you can get CD-ROM there

Solaris 5.6
it is not excepting keyboard input. The only input I can do is stop-a. So how do I fix it? Do I need to format the drive and start over? Please help men do not want to trash this machine or sell it

If you want recover root passwd, serial in to the serial port using your laptop hyperterm and break it to ok> prompt. boot cdrom -s to go single user, mount your raw disk to /mnt , edit the shadow file(remove encrypted passwd) and save it. reboot the system and you're in.

to install os, break to ok> prompt. type "boot cdrom" thats all

What cable do I need to use and how do I use hyperterm?