This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0150_01C1D1BE.29EE5080 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks for the response. My goal here is to have a machine (now running = Linux and with an unknown password) with a new OS on it (will not have = Linux on the machine when I am finished). I hope to install Windows = 2000 from the CD that I have here. My question is: Is there a way to = boot from the new OS CD without knowing the password for the Linux = system? Thanks. Jack ----- Original Message -----=20 From: lynn.newton@cox.net=20 To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us ; = plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us=20 Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: Re: help with new OS >>>> I have two machines with Linux running and I am a complete newbie to = Lunix. Really a newbie, assume nothing about any prior knowledge. I = need only one machine to learn more about Linux. One is running just = fine, the other is another story. I cannot login. I do not know the = password for this machine and need to log in to the machine since I want = to install a different OS. Is there a way to get to the area where I = can login and start to install the new OS? Thanks. Jack <<<< If you mean you're going to install it from scratch, then just blow it away. You install from a bootable CD (usually). If you mean you are upgrading the system from a prior release, you can = probably still do that, although you might have trouble mounting the filesystems after booting off the CD if you = didn't shutdown cleanly, and you'll definitely have a problem getting back on the system after the upgrade. One way or another you or someone else has to know the password. (There *are* ways around that, but that's a discussion for another thread.) Lynn David Newton Phoenix, Arizona -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- I have two machines with Linux running and I am a complete newbie to = Lunix. Really a newbie, assume nothing about any prior knowledge. I = need only one machine to learn more about Linux. One is running just = fine, the other is another story. I cannot login. I do not know the = password for this machine and need to log in to the machine since I want = to install a different OS. Is there a way to get to the area where I = can login and start to install the new OS? Thanks. Jack ------=_NextPart_000_0150_01C1D1BE.29EE5080 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Thanks for the response.  My goal here is to have a = machine=20 (now running Linux and with an unknown password) with a new OS on it = (will not=20 have Linux on the machine when I am finished).  I hope to install = Windows=20 2000 from the CD that I have here.  My question is:  Is there = a way to=20 boot from the new OS CD without knowing the password for the Linux = system? =20 Thanks.  Jack
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From:=20 lynn.newton@cox.net
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.pho= enix.az.us=20 ; plug-discuss@lists.plug.pho= enix.az.us=20
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 = 4:00=20 PM
Subject: Re: help with new = OS

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I have two machines with Linux = running and=20 I am a complete newbie to Lunix.  Really a newbie, assume nothing = about=20 any prior knowledge.  I need only one machine to learn more about = Linux.  One is running just fine, the other is another story. I = cannot=20 login.  I do not know the password for this machine and need to = log in to=20 the machine since I want to install a different OS.  Is there a = way to=20 get to the area where I can login and start to install the new = OS? =20 Thanks.  Jack
<<<<

If you mean you're going = to=20 install it from scratch,
then just blow it away. You install from a = bootable
CD (usually).

If you mean you are upgrading the = system from=20 a prior release, you can probably still do that, although you = might
have=20 trouble mounting the filesystems after booting off the CD if you = didn't=20 shutdown cleanly, and you'll definitely
have a problem getting back = on the=20 system after the
upgrade. One way or another you or someone else = has
to=20 know the password. (There *are* ways around that,
but that's a = discussion=20 for another thread.)




Lynn David Newton
Phoenix,=20 Arizona

I have two machines with Linux running and I am a = complete newbie=20 to Lunix.  Really a newbie, assume nothing about any prior=20 knowledge.  I need only one machine to learn more about = Linux.  One=20 is running just fine, the other is another story. I = cannot=20 login.  I do not know the password for this machine and need to = log in to=20 the machine since I want to install a different OS.  Is there a = way to=20 get to the area where I can login and start to install the new = OS? =20 Thanks.  Jack
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