Your "root" password is your user password. Simply type "sudo"
followed by the command and enter your password. Rest assured,
Ubuntu installs quite nicely on a fair number of machines.
Quirky hardware can cause issues though, such as the old NForce
board I had. 

Dat be it,
Mr O.

--- toman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


 At some point a root
> password got assigned, but not by me, so I have no idea what
> it is. The 
> application install GUI was really primitive, maybe they're
> expecting 
> users to be apt-get
> conversant. It couldn't find a driver for my linksys wireless
> card, 
> which older versions of Suse have. All in all, for a
> distribution that's 
> working that "Linux for
> everybody" angle it seemed like Linux for almost nobody. I
> think if I 
> were to inflict a Debian variant on an unsuspecting newbie, it
> would be 
> Knoppix or its
> progeny, because it does such a good job of autoprobing
> hardware, and 
> just works.  Anyway, if my Ubuntu bashing wasn't enough to
> disuade 
> folks, I have a few
> that are free to good homes.
> 
>                                                               
>           
>

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