On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:50, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2004, at 9:31 PM, Gareth Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:47:48 +1300, eBhakta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Yes, it's Debian based... At what stage of the boot process should
> >> "ctrl-alt-F1" be applied? Did get to the cursor, and typed in
> >> "apt-get"...
> >> but it wouldn't recognise the command. Serious newbie stuff... :$
> >
> > oops, I kinda assumed you already knew about apt-get. You will need to
> > be root to run that command. type 'su', then enter your root password,
> > then try it again. you might also like to read 'man apt-get'. if you
> > intend to use a debian based system you'll need to at some point :)
> >
> It's Ubuntu - use 'sudo' instead of 'su', otherwise the instructions
> are fine.
>
> ("There Is No Root" in Ubuntu, rather like in OS X ...)
>
> -jim
>
sudo passwd root, and then root can be logged in.
there is a root account, it is not passworded by default.
the first user made can do anything via sudo
