Hi, I'm just wondering wheter Debian can be installed on RS/6K 42T; yes, it says that the bus is MCA. Would it be any problem with this?
I also need to get to root on the current machines which run on AIX, but unfortunately, the maintainers of the machines have gone and nobody knows the password (no intended cracking is involved here) and I don't have the AIX CDs either. I have been thinking that if you could remove the harddisks and mount them on a working Debian for PPC, then there will be no problem; all is needed (theoretically, because there's no /etc/shadow) is to edit /etc/passwd and remove the password entry. I was going to that (ie: mounting the disks) on my working Linux x86, but I didn't see jfs as the supported filesystem. What is "jfs" anyway? A proprietary AIX's filesystem? I hope Debian for PPC (if there's such thing) supports jfs, so that if I could get Debian running on a Sun, then the root's password can be changed (all the machines have SCSI disks, so hardware is no problem I think). Thanks in advance, Oki
