Hi Debians I'm a newbie; just managed to boot my 486/66 (28 ram, 540 WD HD) onto Linux late last night, and all seems to be well and good, only I can't install anything. Dselect won't let me choose the access method to use (I'm installing from the dos-partition, because the computer isn't connected to the internet). What dselect does is: loads fine, no errors. When I choose "0" "Access" <enter> it empties the screen and tells me this at the bottom: dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile: Permission denied and the $-prompt. My guess is: 1. I have to be "root" to do this 2. I could have set something wrong when assigning privileges to (the one and only) user: me?! How do I change from user to root when Linux by default asks for my "user" password on startup? Is it possible to change the user-privileges to allow me a large degree of freedom within the system as "user" (suppose it is, but how?!) I can't wait to exterminate my microsoft apps, and I'm really excited about this, so I'm looking forward to your answers.
Regards Vitux