How to access macbook without password or disk

I need to get into my old Macbook, and I cannot remember my password, and I don't have the startup disk.  How can I change the password in single user mode?  My old MacBook is a simple, white MacBook--nothing fancy, from August 2011.  I now have the MBPr, and when I got it, I never bothered to transfer anything because I was so excited about the new one.  Oops...  Thanks. 

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