02-24-2012
Lost Password to Debian on PS3. Need help or better documentation for recreating a live-cd
About a year and half or so ago me and a friend set up Debian on a PS3. For a while I could not boot into the ps3 but managed to get it running again. I was very excited to get back in a play on the Debian distro we installed until I found neither of us could remember the password he put on it.
Normally it would be nothing for me to burn another live distro, mount it, and reset the password. But getting a live distro to run on PS3 was a lot of work. Plus, since PS3 removed the "Install Other OS" option, a lot of documentation has disappeared. Most of the documentation left goes to dead links. Some of them I've managed to trace back with thewaybackmachine. I'm still struggling with the hierarchy of the folders to load on the disk though. I know if certain things aren't in specific places and named folders the PS3 won't see it at all.
Any information on how to boot live correctly or retrieve/reset my passwd will be greatly appreciated.
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NAME
debian-distro-info - provides information about Debian's distributions
SYNOPSIS
debian-distro-info [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS
--date=DATE
date for calculating the version (default: today)
-h, --help
display help message and exit
--alias=DIST
print the alias (stable, testing, unstable) relative to the distribution codename passed as an argument. Only distribution code-
names composed of lower case ASCII letters are accepted, and if the distribution does not qualify as stable, testing or unstable,
then the same codename passed as argument is returned.
-a, --all
list all known versions
-d, --devel
latest development version
-o, --old
latest old (stable) version
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latest stable version
--supported
list of all supported stable versions
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latest testing version
--unsupported
list of all unsupported stable versions
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print the codename (default)
-r, --release
print the release version
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print the full name
SEE ALSO
distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)
AUTHOR
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
distro-info January 2011 DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)