I cast my vote for Trinux (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/trinux/trinux-80rc2-2.4.5.iso) It fits on a business card sized CD (~25M) and comes with a lot of networking tools. And if you don't want to use this CD, you can easily make your own, or use a floppy to boot and grab packages off a CD. On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 15:41, 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. > > >>>>> "j" == jeffr <jeffr at odeon.net> writes: > > j> Boot into single user mode, reset the password. > > j> Instructions for booting into single user mode via grub and lilo can be > j> found at: > > j> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html > > j> Jeff > > > j> On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Scott Raun wrote: > > >> OK, I did something ... less than brilliant. > >> > >> I set up Mandrake on a Compaq laptop. Everything's working fine. > >> However, I have recently (like, Thursday?) realized that I've > >> forgotten the root password. This is not currently a high-priority > >> problem, but will become more so as time goes on. > >> > >> It boots from CD-ROM very nicely - any recommendations for fixing > >> this? > >> > >> IIRC, I turned on shadow passwords - I assume I could boot from > >> removeable media, go in and delete the password from /etc/shadow, > >> reboot, log in as root, and change the password? > >> > >> > > > j> _______________________________________________ > j> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > j> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > j> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Chris Frederick <cdf123 at cdf123.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list