Hi Everyone I recently purchased a magazine with Linux Madrake 7.0 on it's cover CD. I was very excited about it because of the reviews I had read about Mandrake and I couldn't wait to install it on a free hard drive of mine. The first problem I had was using cdrom.img which allowed installation with DrakX. The system stalled when setup tried to analyse the type of cdrom being used; i.e. when it came to the CD ISO part of the startup procedure. That didn't bother me too much as I then switched to text install using txt_boot.img. Having done that I went through the normal installation procedure and was ready to login. At the login prompt I tried to login as 'root' but it didn't accept my password. The fact is that I entered the password correctly but it still didn't accept the password. I thought that maybe the installation was corrupt so I then re-installed Mandrake 4 to 5 more times but again it was still giving me the same message of entering an invalid password. Has anyone else had the same problem of root login? Has anyone else been given an error message saying that the password is invalid for the root user even though the password is entered correctly? Please can anyone help me as I really am very desperate to using Mandrake 7.0. Thanks. Regards, John ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
