I was given a box that has been so problematic
the owner said just take it...
O.K. I figure how hard can it be to slap Linux
on this thing (Athlon 1.4Ghz, 512MBRAM)
I downloaded the Fedora 7 LiveCD and did an
install of that distro. However while the
install process had me make a normal user it did
not have me make a "root" user and password
(which I thought was very strange). I figured
there was a new way to do things which would be
found in the docs. No luck. I didn't find
anything on the FC7 pages
(http://fedoraproject.org/).
I ended up searching the web and found out that
I needed to do the following to get to single
user mode:
"Here is what you have to do. Reboot to the grub
kernel choice menu...
...
On the line of the kernel hit "e" to edit the
line. It is explained at the
bottom of the menu. Then at the end of the
kernel line place a "1".
Then continue the boot. You will boot into run
level 1 where you are
root and can change the root passwd with the
"passwd" command."
https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=39853&forum=32
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O.K. here is my question...
What did I miss during the install? Surely doing
a single user procedure to set the root pw isn't
a Newbie thing (or is making it "hard" a
"feature"...)? One item I saw during searching
said this regarding setting the root account and
pw during fedora7 setup, "I don't see how. You
*have* to enter one as part of the installation
process. It won't proceed until you do.". Well
in this install it certainly did not have to do
any such thing.
Going to single user mode wasn't a big deal for
me but does anyone know the "easy" way to do this?
rb(???)w
P.S. I wanted to run "yum install yumex" and
that's how I ended up figuring this out... in a
round about way.
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