Re: [cobalt-users] Hacked - Help Please - URGENT

["Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, vijay wrote:

To all of the people on the list who can't get onto their cobalt...I think
I can offer a solution.

1. Open your cobalt, take out the hard drive, and without modifying any
jumper settings, put it into a machine as the ONLY hard drive on the
primary IDE bus.

2. Make the boot disk found here:

http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html

This is a boot disk with a bunch of decent linux repair utils.  (Fair
warning, you will have to use vi if you want a text editor, or mount your
cobalt's hard drive and use pico from there).

3. Boot the PC.

4. Once you've booted, youll find your cobalt's / partition at /dev/hda1,
your /usr partition at /dev/hda3 and your /var at /dev/hda4 (I'm typing
this from memory, so those last two may be reversed).

Once done, be sure to unmount the drives, and you're safe to shut down.

Just trying to offer help, this disk has saves my @$$ on more than one
occasion.  (like for the machines that DON'T have a nifty little "reset
admin password" button on the front.) 

--

"Little tramp sits in her room all day, sewing dolls!  Children
misbehaving in the basement, and one in the walls, doing his business God
knows where!  You children will be the death of me, *sniff*."

'Mommy', The People Under The Stairs


--------Dan Mahoney--------
Techie,  Sysadmin,  WebGeek
Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC
ICQ: 13735144   AIM: LarpGM
Web: http://prime.gushi.org
finger danm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
for pgp public key and tel#
---------------------------