On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 15:17 -0600, Bill McConnaughey wrote: > I installed gNewSense 1.0 without apparent problems. But I can't log in > as root. Should I have given "root" when it asked for a user name during > the installation?
It probably wasn't a good idea. Perhaps the installer should check that the user doesn't choose usernames that match system accounts. (Does it not do this already?) > What can I do about it now? If you don't want to reinstall, you could use the installation CD as a LiveCD, mount the relevant partitions, chroot in, and add a user. Do you know how to do this? It will be something like: sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt sudo chroot /mnt sudo adduser bill <enter password and other information as required> exit > I did the installation on one system and then tried to connect the hard > disk to an older machine. I got Grub error 18 (selected cylinder exceeds > the maximum supported by bios). Is it possible to do an installation on > that machine? Perhaps, using a smaller HDD... > On my first attempt to install, on a 2.1 GB disk, it got 75% of the way > there and **then** said the disk is full. ...or not. > How about putting a little file about minimum system requirements in > your download directory? Also, the first CD that I burned would get > half-way through installation and then hang. It turned out there was > a bad sector. A diagnostic would have been nice. These are both good ideas. I suspect we could get a few bug reports filed on the installer out of this - you've not had a good time. ;) -- Tim Retout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Join the FSF as an Associate Member at: <URL:http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=3298> _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
