On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:10:04PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I think that immediately after the first re-boot I was either asked > > for a password or was presented with a prompt. I hit return and found > > myself logged in as the root user. I cannot be sure that I ignored a > > *that* is really surprising. You should have entered the "base-config" > step which finishes the installation (setup root pwd, turn shadow > passwords on and so on). > I re-ran the installation to the point where "base-config" gets called. It throws up a message with a red background complaining about a dirty? install. If it had thrown up that message for the first install with all the disks partitions except /home formatted, I would probably have aborted the "base-config" rather than risk damage to /home.
When I got to that point today I abandoned the installation. > Investigating what could have triggered this could be tricky....unless > you can retry the install..:-) > That is a possibility. I was intending to burn most of Debian|testing onto DVD or CD-ROM's, and of course prove that it works. It may take a week or two. In the meantime there are abour 12 install --reinstalls to do to get shadow passwords accepted by applications. > > No question was asked, and I will file this problem as a bug > > against exim4. It may seem trivial, but loss of access to mail > > No, don't. This is *also* because the base-config step didn't run. So > no need to bug exim4 maintainers with this. > I was approaching this from the view that there is inconsistency. Sometimes Debian asks for commas, sometimes spaces, but colons appear to be an exception when entering URL's or hostnames. A two-line example in the guidance would help configure exim4. > > caused me a lot of problems. Apologies for misleading you. > > > > Pardon my curiosity, but do you know why my IDE hard disk and the > > DVD-ram disk at /dev/hda and /dev/hdd cannot be accessed? > > > No idea actually.... > Hmmm .. This may have something to do with my Abit motherboard. I will give this some thought when configuring a new kernel. regards Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]