On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, time has gone by, the first blush has faded, and I realize the > machine has some shortcomings. Compounding this is that I forgot the > root password I picked (shows you how much I've installed on the > thing).
I'd have to go back and check, but I'm pretty sure gOS doesn't have a root password. It uses sudo and your own password. To test that, try this: 1) open a terminal 2) type 'sudo id' You should be prompted for your password (not root's). Then you should see something like this: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) > Now, I know there's a way to get the root password just by > booting up another distro that runs off an SD card or a USB thumb > stick (Puppy is my choice for doing such things) and simply marching > through the file tree to where the password is stored. But, it occurs > to me this might be a good time to simply junk the gOS desktop it came > with and get something more...suited to what I hope to do. > ... but they also make me wonder > if switching to another distro on this thing is even feasible. FWIW, I replaced gOS on my Everex gPC with Ubuntu 7.10 and then 8.04 (soon 8.10) and it works great. > I figure that leaves the part of the OS that relays the > information between the antenna and the OS itself. Could also be an issue with the WiFi router. Yesterday I was working on a project to setup wifi for a small group. I took the shotgun approach and bought three wifi's from Office Depot: d-link, linksys, and netgear. Only two out of the three worked well. One (the d-link) exhibited exactly the symptoms you describe with your Cloudbook. > Does this mean that another distro, > like say Fedora or Ubuntu, would have trouble running because this is > clearly an unusual chip design that the engineers have not encountered > yet (I know gOS is based on Ubuntu, but it appears to have some key > differences, given that you are urged to use the gOS Update feature > instead of Ubuntu's App-Get)? Or will it run fine, and simply getting > a good distro as opposed to the entry level gOS will fix the problem > with things running weird? > > Basically, if I change distros on this thing, I want a mature distro, > not one like gOS or Xandross. Any ideas how feasible that is? As others have mentioned, there's no good way to know until you try. And booting from a USB install of Ubuntu or Fedora is a great way to test it out. Good luck and let us know how things go. Regards, - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
