-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > >> The installer runs through all the stages, but does not ask for a root >> password (which I found odd). > > This is normal because 3.0 is based on Ubuntu and not Debian. Ubuntu's > security policy is to *not* have a root login... instead doing everything > through sudo. They claim that having a root login (or using 'su') > promotes unsafe practices. > Using root and su does promote unsafe practises. As an aside, sudo can be logged and locked down to specific apps for specific users. Sudo is simply awesome.
> ...of course, I'm not sure that allowing 'sudo su' is much safer... but > that would be flame bait, wouldn't it... There was a recent "discussion" about these issues. The 64Studio default for sudo not requiring a password appals me but I believe the consensus was to keep that default going forward. You can prevent sudo from running su quite easily. In case Daniel and Free missed it, I think the current default is bad. No need to discuss it further since my position will not change and I can always make 64Studio behave in a way that is consistent with my own policies. > >> At the end of the installation process, it >> recommends to reboot, but it cannot boot from the harddisk. > > Did you make sure that your root partition is marked with the 'bootable' > flag? > Also, how many hard drives are in this machine? Perhaps the boot order is messed up in the BIOS or there are two or more bootable devices (I see this with the odd USB drive)? There are a number of possibilities. Try to simplify as much as possible. >> One caveat for users installing this next to an older installation: if you >> leave a swap partition in existence on another harddisk, the installer >> will claim that 'linux-rt' cannot be downloaded. > > This doesn't make sense. Is the problem that you ran out of memory... or > that some benign swap partition on another disk blocked your download? > And why was it trying to download a kernel? The ISO ships with a kernel. > That does seem to be a weird problem. >> I will try to do a clean install with good old 2.1 and then update to 3 >> from there. > > This will probably NOT work. The upgrade path is Debian Etch -> > Ubuntu Hardy. While it might work... you will likely have stability > issues. > It worked for me in a test VM. I am still a believer in a clean first install though, especially for the less experienced users. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJqfLuwRXgH3rKGfMRAmf/AJ9rLLp6cmp+EiP+TUSdzRT2siNUCgCfX2uV FRZRyfCbmmzdWnm5SOyto6k= =XKL3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
