Hello all. I am very new to Sun world. I have a brand new V880 in the box. It has come preinstalled with Solaris 8. It does not have a graphics card. I have to check the MAC address for the ethernet card. Can someone advise me how can I login without knowing the root password and how can I see the screen without the console. Please advise. Thank you
Hello Don,
attach to the console port (serial) and review the banner or review the yellow (?) sheet that came with the system.
How do you want to configure the system w/o console or a configured net connection ?
Michael
The banner method is best, but a new system with Solaris 8 pre loaded will prompt the user to input the root password during initialization, so there is no root password to begin with. Once OE is loaded and you're in the root shell you can use ifconfig -a and the MAC address will show up at the end.
yep ifconfig -a
or
hostid
from the OK prompt type banner
there may be a sticker on the rear of the machine with the mac address on it.
You cannot log in unless you have the root password.
But as its a new box there should not be one.
just log in as root for the user name and hit return for the password
if not you will need to boot off the install cd 1
like so
ok> boot cdrom -s
then mount the disk and edit the password files.
this can go horribly wrong.
