I don't know if i translate your Email correctly,but to set the password of root with "gentoo livecd" the cmd is : ...$ sudo passwd After you can used su to obtain the root privileges.
Hervé Le samedi 19 août 2006 à 07:02 +0000, Martin S a écrit : > I am having problems installing Gentoo 2006.0. The computer has > partitions and data I want to save. > Whenever I try to install (using the LiveCD) I get as far as entering > the root password but when the actual installation is about to start > the installation dies. Using the cli it simply quits, using the > graphical thing I get "failed to set root password". > Any suggestions (other than "use the minimal CD")? > > Regards, > > Martin S -- [email protected] mailing list
