This is cute ;-)

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:58:39PM -0400, Nicholas Bodley wrote:
> As to the question, I don't know, but I couldn't resist a Wintergreen box  
> from TigerDirect, a while ago; came with Linspire. (For personal, not  
> technical reasons, I haven't yet put it into service, sad to say.)  
> Currently, have Libranet 3.0 with root access all but cut off; my Big  
> Goof...

At the bootloader, edit the command line to add the option

init=/bin/sh

When it boots, mount your root read/write

mount -o remount,rw /dev/whatever

change the root password

passwd

and reboot cleanly.

Now you know the root password. You may want to install sudo and
enable sudo access for your user account now...

-dsr-