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Re: How can I change screwed up Root Password-FC3 on Dell Laptop

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Subject: Re: How can I change screwed up Root Password-FC3 on Dell Laptop

From: "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters@xxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:53:42 +0000

In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (from [email protected] on Tue Dec 7 20:00:28 2004)

References: <[email protected]>

Reply-to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

On 12/07/2004 08:00:28 PM, Erik Hemdal wrote:


> Hi all
>
> How can I access Fedora to   change my
> screwed up Root Password-FC3
> on a Dell Laptop [  it has a floppy but No cdrom]
>
> I must have typed in the same erroneous password twice.. go figure?
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Johnny
>
>

How did you arrange to install FC3 without a CD-ROM drive?

On some hardware, you can boot off of a USB thumb drive (or any removable media big enough, I think at least 4 MB) and then proceed with an ftp/nfs install. Your bios has to support such booting though.