This is what I thought, but I could say for sure as I have personally installed Ubuntu in a long time.
In any case, Craig wrote back to say he had solved the problem. Thank you everyone. David Mandel On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Daniel B. Herrington <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > If he installed Ubuntu, the installer would have prompted him for a > username and password. That's what he would use to login. If he's using > the livecd, then there shouldn't be a username and password, at least > not in the most recent builds (~since 8.04?). I'm not familiar with > earlier versions than 8.04. > > -- > Daniel B. Herrington > Director of Field Services > Robert Mark Technologies > [email protected] > o: 651-769-2574 > ho: 503-419-6464 > m: 503-358-8575 > > > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 00:34 -0700, David Mandel wrote: >> Craig Wojcik <[email protected]> sent me the following question. >> I don't use Ubuntu very often and don't know the answer off hand and >> don't have time to do research on this at the moment. >> >> Would some Ubuntu user answer Craigs question for me. >> Send the answer directly to Craig as he isn't (yet) a PLUG member. >> >> THE QUESTION IS: >> >> David, >> >> I am the person that spoke to you at the fair today about VBasic, >> parallel port control of step motors etc. I just installed Ubuntu on >> a Win 7 computer to run as a choice on the initial startup. It comes >> up with a window for a name and password entry. I tried to enter a >> password of my choice and used my name but I can not get anything to >> go forward from that point. Is there an initial name/password >> combination that I need to get things going? >> >> Regards, >> Craig >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> David Mandel >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
