Tim Retout wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 15:17 -0600, Bill McConnaughey wrote:
I installed gNewSense 1.0 without apparent problems. But I can't log in
as root. Should I have given "root" when it asked for a user name during
the installation?
It probably wasn't a good idea. Perhaps the installer should check that
the user doesn't choose usernames that match system accounts. (Does it
not do this already?)
i would think it does.
What can I do about it now?
not log in as root.
If you don't want to reinstall, you could use the installation CD as a
LiveCD, mount the relevant partitions, chroot in, and add a user. Do you
know how to do this? It will be something like:
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
sudo chroot /mnt
sudo adduser bill
<enter password and other information as required>
exit
i dont think that will be required :)
I did the installation on one system and then tried to connect the hard
disk to an older machine. I got Grub error 18 (selected cylinder exceeds
the maximum supported by bios). Is it possible to do an installation on
that machine?
Perhaps, using a smaller HDD...
... or correctly, make a 64mb boot partition ;)
On my first attempt to install, on a 2.1 GB disk, it got 75% of the way
there and **then** said the disk is full.
unless you have 2 drives totalling more then 3 gig, using a 2.1 is a no-go.
...or not.
kk
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Karl Goetz
User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org
Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam
Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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