HELP root password unknown

[Dave Ihnat]

This is relatively late for this person, but it may help someone else...
You *don't* need to go to the trouble of having it rename all your
files, etc.  Bring up the floppy-based first disk, break (as mentioned
by one other person), and you've a "tail-wagging-dog" situation, with
the floppy-booted Unix running and the hard disk waiting in the wings.
Mount your hard disk--the boot floppy will have that command--then use
your favorite editor from your hard disk to delete the password from
the hard disk copy of /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow!).  Then reboot and
reset the root password...

	-Dave Ihnat
	 Analysts International Corp.
	 ignatz at homebru.chi.il.us