update on the SCO mounting hd thing...

[John Esak]

Well, now this is really stupid.  Actually, I had not forgotten my password.
And my friend Jason has been saying there is no way the password could have
been changed.  It really wasn't. Once I put it to something known... I
*still* couldn't login.  The problem there was a conditional "exit" in the
/etc/profile to only allow logins from several machines... Period. It did
not include the console!!  So, I was just exiting at every login/password
combination.  Too wierdc.

Well, either way, I had to mount the drive to grok what was happening.

Thanks for all help. Going to put this to rest..

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:40 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: update on the SCO mounting hd thing...
> 
> Oops! I was wrong.  I had tried the advice of someone in the 
> thread... I
> forget who just now, but will look it up. He suggested typing 
> "tools" at the
> boot prompt. Which I did... This is what eventually brought 
> me to the 3
> piece menu with a drop to the shell on it. Pressing ENTER at 
> boot did not.
> However, when I did a 'dir" at the boot prompt, I did not see anything
> called "tools", so maybe it's just typing *anything* there that causes
> different than install behavior.
> 
> Anyway, thirty seconds to get to the shell then did:
> 
> Mount /dev/hd0root /mnt
> Chroot /mnt /bin/sh
> Passwd
> 
> Changed the root passwrod and all was exactly as Bill 
> Campbell suggested it
> would be.
> 
> Whew!
> 
> John
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of John Esak
> > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:24 PM
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Subject: OT: update on the SCO mounting hd thing...
> > 
> > Well, I put a Sco 5.7 CD in the drive and an empty hard drive 
> > on the SATA
> > port.
> > 
> > It actually comes to a little menu that says:
> > 
> > 1) Start a shell on the ramdisk
> > 2) shutdown
> > 3) Begin the install
> > 
> > How cool is that. I thought I would have to remember where to 
> > press F3 or
> > whatever it used to be at some strategic point in the install 
> > like on 5.6.
> > 
> > So, I"ve just hung my old drive on the SATA port and I'll try 
> > it again, then
> > mount the drive to hd0root and do the chroot thing. Don't see 
> > why it won't
> > work.
> > 
> > More to come.
> > 
> > John
> > 
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