On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 03:41:45PM -0500, Jon Schewe wrote: >Note this doesn't always work. Many times single user mode still asks for >the root password. Booting off a bootdisk/cd and then erasing the password >works nicely. I find tomsrtbt, http://www.toms.net, to be a very useful >compact rescue disk. If you want a few more tools, knoppix seems to be the >favorite. www.toms.net also offers a bootable cd if your boxen have given up on those *cough*obnoxious*cough* floppies. I have not personally tried this, but come on its tomsrtbt ;) http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions/tinylinux/tomsrtbt/tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img.bz2 There are a ton of bootable linux cd's. I downoaded the knoppix, but I gave it to the neighbor kid before I tried it. (I'll have to add that to my make-believe todo list.) I often used the bbc http://www.lnx-bbc.org/http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ to solve 'issues'. Real-Time has a rescue disk as well which I have used a few times. I believe it is based on LinuxCare http://www.linuxcare.com/ <!--snip--!> -- Linux Administrator || Technology Specialist || Wifi Engineer http://autonomous.tv/~spencer/resume/ || spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030428/69daacd7/attachment.pgp