On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. > I've tried to boot from ROM SHELL, but there is no such way, the > permissions are'nt enought to edit, even to view the file /etc/passwd > and /etc/passwd.master, i read an article about password recovery of SGI > IRIX 6.5, you need the CD Install, which i dont have, ive try to crack > the password (according to John the ripper docs), not successfull, > debian wont boot from CD, and they said Debian MIPS dont support SGI O2, > Is it true?
Ahh yeah. Now I remember. Boot from CD is the way to go. But I still think the miniroot method (might) work. So buy yourself some IRIX install disks off eBay. OTOH the O2 is an ancient machine. 180MHz R5000 anyone? that's like a Pentium 166. Unless you have the R10k based O2. In which case.. that's like a Pentium 233. Or maybe you have the Siemens R8k based O2.. Pentium II 300? So, aside from the "sexiness" (only a geek would call it sexy..) of having IRIX, there's no value proposition to it. Even an old GeForce 256 has better geometry and texturing hardware. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
