paul
Veteran Member
I have the classic problem of how to delete the root password in /etc/passwd on my newly-acquired SGI Indy. It's my first SGI, running IRIX 6.2 with the efs filesystem. I don't have any IRIX media unfortunately. The machine runs perfectly otherwise and it's essential I don't damage the disk - at least before I can clone it.
From a Sun Ultra1 running OpenBSD 4.3 I can't mount the disk. The error is "the device is not configured." I'm not 100% sure there wasn't a SCSI hardware problem in this case as it eventually locked up in a loop trying to reset the scsi bus. I used the active termination on the disk.
From a PC running Ubuntu 9.04 (live) it can mount the disk but it's not happy. It will list the contents of the root directory but with errors - see below. I can't change to any other directories on the disk or access files. Used different scsi cabling from above and passive termination.
I sent an email in to the original (and only other) owner to see if he remembers the password, but I'm not holding my breath as it hasn't been used in a decade. I also have early 90's machines running NetBSD 1.6.1 and HPUX 10.40 for what's that's worth.
I have an identical Seagate drive to clone the disk, need to understand that process too, presumably best done under IRIX.
From a Sun Ultra1 running OpenBSD 4.3 I can't mount the disk. The error is "the device is not configured." I'm not 100% sure there wasn't a SCSI hardware problem in this case as it eventually locked up in a loop trying to reset the scsi bus. I used the active termination on the disk.
From a PC running Ubuntu 9.04 (live) it can mount the disk but it's not happy. It will list the contents of the root directory but with errors - see below. I can't change to any other directories on the disk or access files. Used different scsi cabling from above and passive termination.
I sent an email in to the original (and only other) owner to see if he remembers the password, but I'm not holding my breath as it hasn't been used in a decade. I also have early 90's machines running NetBSD 1.6.1 and HPUX 10.40 for what's that's worth.
I have an identical Seagate drive to clone the disk, need to understand that process too, presumably best done under IRIX.
ls: cannot access stand: Input/output error
total 3510
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7 1994-11-21 23:53 bin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 1995-08-27 22:05 CDROM
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 1995-03-03 02:20 debug -> proc
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? dev
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 1998-01-13 01:49 dumpster
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 1995-12-12 14:44 floppy
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 1996-11-21 17:06 lib32
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? lost+found
drwx------ 2 root root 512 1996-04-15 19:45 Mail
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 1995-03-03 02:20 proc
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? sbin
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? stand
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 1995-08-27 22:14 swap
drwxrwxrwt 5 sync root 512 2009-12-01 05:17 tmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3588108 1996-11-21 17:40 unix
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? usr
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? var
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 1997-09-11 03:49 zip
root@ubuntu:/mnt#