At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:33:55 -0400 Nick Khamis <sym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do > is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab > looked ok. > > I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME > did return /root. > > If I do not make mistakes I will not learn. > > This is a great mailing list I am very gratefull for the response time and > help I am getting out of it. Hope to return the favour to someone in this > list in the future whom is making the same mistakes I am currently making. We were all in your situation at some point. Indeed, I felt most comfortable with gentoo because of the great help on this list. Good luck! allan