Sorry, folks, but my archive of advice comes up blank of answers to previous
newbies.
Newbie!
Late at night!
Tired! (but not 'tired and confused'... i.e. not drunk!)
My 'nice new' system is an oldish 486DX2 with a SCSI 1G drive ALL given to Linux
(100M swap, 300M / for system, and remainder for /usr) and SCSI CD, RH6.0 with
Gnome on default.
(1) There I was, in the wee-small-hours of Sunday morning, after a VERY easy
installation process during Saturday, happy and contented. I decided that my
root password was not 'secure' enough and changed it on my new system. Another
'obvious' password, so, naturally, I didn't write it down! That's not secure!
Sunday afternoon, I went back to the system...
Can I get back inside the system without a complete re-installation?
The only saving grace is that it is a NEW, NEW, NEW system with 'nothing to
lose'.
(2) What would be the process for getting an oldish, full-length controller card
in this machine? (**as well as** the SCSI)? I have to describe the cards...
they have two ribbon cables to the drive, a wider one and a narrower one, and
the controller can handle two drives... so is it old IDE or even ESDI???
(3) Having told the installation that I had a 256k video controller, I find it's
a 1M card. How do I change the system without a complete reinstallation
(assuming that I don't have to reinstall to clear the root password snafu...)
and,
(4) How do you normally shut down Gnome?
or...
Did I just notice someone saying Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to close X things?
Thanks,
Peter
