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From: sec@matrix.42.org (Stefan `Sec` Zehl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Password issues
Date: 24 May 1997 17:32:36 +0200
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In article <EAJqEM.2Dq@sphynx.fdn.fr>, Philippe Causse wrote:
> Please E-mail me this well-known password so that I can try it on my
> i486-orchid-freebsd. /TIA/

Offhand i know only the ami-bios one - (can you guess, thats the bios i have
at home :) - but i know that there are some for other popular bioses as
well :)

> Wow !  Yet another frustrated PC user !!!
> Time to handcraft your own BIOS, isn't it ? 8-)

Hmm, i'm not really frustrated, not since i use BSD (exept that all
harddisks i plug into my server seem to fail about 3 months later :( )

> Hey, Brian, what about a FreeBSD boot prom for this guy ?
> A nice gadget you can plug into your Ether's EPROM slot and which will
> offer the same functionality as Sun's boot prom, i.e. boot from disk,
> cd-rom, floppy, Ether or even tape !!!

You mean that for real? - is there such thing ?

> Can't find /kernel. Aborting...
/dev/null: write failed, filesystem full.

CU,
	Sec
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