On Friday 14 February 2003 12:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
>
> if you are using the 1.4rc2 x86 live cd, then you have to set a
> password for the root login on console one before loggin on to
> other console.
>
> there must be some hint about this when you boot the live cd i'm
> sure.
No. I'm using 1.4_rc2 and the instructions on the website are for 1.4_rc2, and
they specifically state:
"You will be automatically logged in as "root" and the root password will be
set to a random string for security purposes. You should have a root ("#")
prompt on the current console, and can also open new root consoles by
pressing Alt-F2, Alt-F3 and Alt-F4. Get back to the one you started on by
pressing (you guessed it) Alt-F1."
I find that this isn't true.
I've skipped over step 2 and I'm past step 3 - none of which seems to apply to
me: no PCI modules in this machine, no SCSI modules either, no RAID and I've
not recieved any notification that DMA is or isn't enabled, so it's probably
not a problem.
In step 4 now, I've also noticed another anomaly. The text that appears when
the CD is booted and up to the root prompt says that to:
"Type net-config eth0 to eth0 IP address settings by hand"
If I do that, I get:
"bash: net-config: command not found"
This appears to conflict with the website instructions, which mention PPOE
(which doesn't apply to me), then automatic network setup, which uses
'net-setup eth0' instead (which I'm trying now). This gives me the
opportunity of using DHCP settings, which I've selected, now I go on to
manual DHCP configuration, which doesn't apply to me as I've just done the
automatic setup, then I go on to Manual Static configuration, which I can
skip as I've done it automatically, on to Proxy configuration, which also
doesn't apply to me, then on to Network Testing. Here I get differing results
too: I get the details for lo not eth0 (the loopback, I believe). No eth0.
That's where I'm up to so far.
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Ian Tindale
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