[SC.LUG] Advice please

[Neil Lucock]

Hi,

can someone figure out how I can resolve the following problem? 
I have an old Sparc 5 running Red Hat 6.1. I access it through a crossover 
serial cable into the com port of the Mandrake machine. (Suns send their 
output to the serial port if there's no keyboard attached). I run Minicom in 
a terminal to do whatever I want. The machine does not have a CD drive, but 
does have an ethernet card.

I wanted to use DHCP instead of having a fixed IP of 192.168.0.5, as I now 
have a broadband router and the rest of the network uses the range from 
10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.6 as suggested by the ISP's instructions.
I used netconfig and told the Sparc to use DHCP (the router acts as a DHCP 
server) but the program segfaulted for some reason. Now it won't let me log 
in (as anything), it gives a login prompt but typing "root" and "enter" does 
not get anywhere. Basically, I can't log in.

Any ideas on how to get in again? (Or what to do with a pizzabox paperweight?)
Thanks,
Neil