[Gllug] I have forgotten my root password, I am a muppet.

[will]

Hello again.

As the subject line implies I have forgotten the root password to an old 486
box that I was playing around with at home.  It is a fresh install of
mandrake 7.1 and it is just that the usernames/passwords are different to
the ones I entered on install (I had had a few beers, that might have
something to do with it).  I managed to get in using a user account but this
has no priveliges to do anything outside it's home directory.  I have a
tomsrtbt disk and have booted up using that, but don't know what the hell to
do next.  It has a scsi HD (sda1) which I have managed to mount and CDROM
(dunno) which I havent after booting of tomsrtbt.

help.

I want to re-install linux on the box but haven't got a clue how to go about
it under the current circumstances.  I don't seem to be able to do anything
without root priveleges.  Oh, and to make matters more interesting, the
motherboard/bios does not support booting from CDROM :-)

Any ideas?

Will.


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