Re-hi all,
Last night I successfully (apparently) installed OpenSuse 10.2. It was
getting late and I let it run its course when I went to bed. This
morning it looked like the only thing I needed to do was set username
and password but for some reason, it wasn't working. In the interest of
time and checking e-mail before I went to work, I went ahead and checked
mail via Windows. Tonight, I attempted to boot into OpenSuse but was
confronted with the sign-on. I tried what I normally would have used as
a root username and password unsuccessfully. The same with my normal
username and password. I have not set them but don't know how now to do
that? Any clues? It is installed but I have not yet assigned a
password for root (nor is root recognized without a password (which I
have not yet assigned) and I certainly have not yet assigned a regular
username and password. :(
Any help would be appreciated.
Best Regards,
Rob Fleetwood
Rockville, MD
Jonathan Arnold wrote:
RTF wrote:
RTF wrote:
Greetings all. I'm preparing to install OpenSuse 10.2 and have been
browsing the web reading various installation instructions (just to
make sure I don't go an overwrite my MBR or something else stupid) and
came across the following...
Quote -
You will see now a summary of the Installation Settings, which comes
in a Standard (default) and Expert (for power users) view. I will
suggest using an empty hard drive for this installation; that means
no other operating system on it, ok? The partition process is
automatic and it will erase all your data from the selected hard drive.
Unquote -
I have my hard drive split into two different partitions by Partition
Magic. Can I safely assume I may substitute "selected partition" for
"selected hard drive" above? I've never run into such a draconian
warning with any other Linux distribution and I have installed several
over the years, always with a dual boot arrangement with Windows.
Thanks in advance.
Rob
Well...I attempted to install once again tonight and was confronted with
the following Installation Summary:
* Delete logical volume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 (68.8 gb)
*Delete logical volume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 (1.9 gb)
*Remove volume group VolGroup00
*Delete partition /dev/sda2 (101.9 gb)
*Delete partition /dev/sda3 (70.8 gb
*Delete partition /dev/sda5(? hard to read on the screen) (70.8 gb)
Needless to say, I did not procede further with the installation. :(
That's what it will do by default. But if you just click on the Partition
selection, you can select from a bunch of different option, including picking
whatever partition you want.
And yeah, pick an empty partition, not necessarily an empty hard drive, is the
way to go.
My favorite online installation guide is here:
http://www.opensuse.computerlanguages.org/install.php
And be sure to check out Hacking 10.2 here:
http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60/
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