[LUAU] Boot Floppy

[George Toft]

Steve Anderson wrote:
> 
> A few weeks I read somewhere (here or newsgroups),
> about how to boot up your system into root when you
> don't know the root password. It was something about
> booting from a floppy. Of course, this depends on the
> privileges allowed for fd0 in /etc/fstab.
> What kind of boot floppy would I need that could
> boot into root without a password.
> Thanks, Steve

The boot floppy that comes with the CD's
will work for this.  You'll have to mount
the partition, then edit the passwd file.
If you got a cheap*bytes CD, the image for
the floppy is included on the CD.

George