Do the two g5s have firewire? you indicated that you were able to access one of
the g5s. if so, connect the two together via fire wire cable, start up and put
the second one in target disk mode.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201462
I think you will be able to erase it and reinstall the software from there.
good luck.
> On Dec 5, 2016, at 8:23 PM, tom holloman <chuba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Aloha
> I received an old G5 that has no user password but does have administrator
> one. It's running on leopard and needs updates. I have the leopard disk and
> reinstalled it but still wants old password.
> There is nothing on hard drive so don't mind losing anything.
> Any ideas? I received two of these and one they remembered admn password but
> not other.
> I just want get em running to give couple less fortunate kids over here.
> Mahalo
> Tom
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