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Terminal will not give feedback when you enter a password. You just have to blindly enter it and hit enter. It's normal.
 
boot with your apple disc in the optical drive, hold the c key while your mac is booting, then instead of performing the installation of mac osx choose from the menu to reset your password.
 
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