Well you're the second person to report seeing this problem. Stephen Starling wrote: > Had to use potato because I have an Athlon (tried > slink, it hangs, did research here and found that the > kernal was too old). So Potato installs fine up to and > including "The Moment of Truth" > > Then it asks to set MD5? then Shadow? then root > password? > > That's where I set it, it asks to confirm by retyping. > then it sends me back to set root password again. > > I've tried all kinds of passwords, long, short, Caps > and lower and punctuation. I've tried this without > MD5 and without Shadow. > > Can anyone help me out?
Please boot the system up. Use alt-f2 to switch to the next VC. Log in as root. If it asks you for a login password, something is really strange -- mail me back for other instructions. If it does not ask you for a password, run the following command at the prompt: script Then at the prompt, run the following command: DEBCONF_DEBUG=2 dpkg-reconfigure base-config Proceed through the dialogs exactly as you did before. Once you have entered a root password twice and (presumably) been sent back to the root password prompt again, use alt-f3 to switch to the next VC. Log in as root. There should be a file named "typescript" in your current directory. Mail me that file. -- see shy jo
