kiriakos wrote: > > Well thank you all guys, but 7.0-2 didn't do it for me. I did as Alan > suggested , that is I made a floppy from a cdrom.img of 7.0-2 version > and I still got the error message that I need 1180 megs and the / > filesystem is not sufficient. I managed to install the packages by > reducing the package size slider to like 1001 Megabytes, thinking I > could add more later if I needed to, and it seemed to work. > > Ok, packages installed and everything, installation says succesfully > completed. When the system reboots, I CAN'T LOGIN as root!!!. But I CAN > login as a regular user. > > I'm 100% sure I'm typing the root password right. is the root user named > anything else than 'root' maybe? > > If it means anything, I've set the security level to paranoid, upon > installation. Do I have to type something extra? And what about LILO, it > asked for a password too, which I provided, and upon boot it just works > without asking a pass or anything. Could these two passwords (root and > LILO) be related in some way? > > Another problem I'm having is that I set the console to 80x60 > characters, and it still shows 80x25 or something, with the added > problem that when the prompt reaches the bottom of the screen I cannot > see what I type, and in fact I have to press Enter 2-3 times and then > what I typed shows up finally. > > I'm thinking I'm not smart enough for Linux and maybe I should drop it. > I'm sorry for asking all those questions, but I have no manuals at hand > to look into for more info. If someone could point out a complete > comprehensive Linux manual/resource/tutorial online, I would appreciate > it. I will try looking at the Mandrake web site for more info too. > > GG You can't log in as root with that security setting. Log in as a user, then enter: su - root and log in as root. Then go into kde (if it will let you) and set your security level down until you get going. There should be something in the config screens to set your console screen size to what you want. You can also try to use Leftshift+pageup/down to scroll on the console screen.
