Þann 2006-10-12, 22:31:43 (+0100) skrifaði Peter Hillier-Brook: > I've just installed Testing on an old 800MHz Pentium III. The > installation seemed to go fine until the final 2 steps: I wasn't clear > why a shell was invoked and then, having exited the shell the only > option left was to abort the installation. > > Booting the new installation went well until the request for a user and > password (in the GUI - Gnome I assume). Either the user, or the password > was not recognised both for root and the default user I had created > during the install. > > My question is; is there any recovery option other than a re-install? I > have several live CDs and Knoppix comes up fine, although grml doesn't.
I think the directions here should work: http://forums.osdir.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=251 the main theme is boot from live cd, mount the root partition, edit your password file (be it /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow), delete the root password in that file, boot again into linux on hard disk. While booting it will ask for a root password and from there you can continue. HTH Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
