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I have two machines with Linux running and I am a complete newbie to Lunix. Really a newbie, assume nothing about any prior knowledge. I need only one machine to learn more about Linux. One is running just fine, the other is another story. I cannot login. I do not know the password for this machine and need to log in to the machine since I want to install a different OS. Is there a way to get to the area where I can login and start to install the new OS? Thanks. Jack
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If you mean you're going to install it from scratch,
then just blow it away. You install from a bootable
CD (usually).
If you mean you are upgrading the system from a prior release, you can probably still do that, although you might
have trouble mounting the filesystems after booting off the CD if you didn't shutdown cleanly, and you'll definitely
have a problem getting back on the system after the
upgrade. One way or another you or someone else has
to know the password. (There *are* ways around that,
but that's a discussion for another thread.)
Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, Arizona
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