RE: Minifridge

>   I've already seen that all three disks are alive.  They're all real
> RZs. The CD is even an actual RRD. The only boot parameters that are
> set are the flags D,A, and boot_reset is ON.  Amazingly a bootdev is
> not set.  I could probably boot into the OS, but I'd just have  to hard
> power the machine.  I'm not sure copying a hash from a Linux box into a
> DEC UNIX box would entirely work, even if I could lay hands on media.

Trial and error then. Show dev will list the disks (and also the MAC address of the ethernet card - can be useful later on). Then go through
>>>boot rz[whatever] -fl s (seeing as it's got tru64 on it). Eventually one of them will work. That will take you into single user mode with a command prompt and you can pretty much do whatever you want from that point onwards (just don't type bcheckrc, otherwise it'll boot up into multiuser mode and ask for a password). Once there you should be able to give the system a good looking over and then decide what to do with it.

Cheers
John