Gus Wirth wrote:
rbw wrote:
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
(#3)
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.
Doing an install from a "Live" CD is different from a regular install.
When installing from the live CD you are basically creating a directory
structure on the hard disk and then copying everything over from the
CDROM (not the image, but the way it looks like when running). That
means you get everything set up the way it is when running off the
CDROM, including the root user.
As already pointed out by Brad you should be able to use sudo for your
admin tasks.
Gus
I guess this really was a newbie question as I
haven't done an install of a "desktop" in a
while. Thanks for the answers. I guess it was
the user setup (my ID) that had sudo rights
(unstated) that made me go, hmmmm...
I have to do it again so I will pay attention to
this detail. I'll be ready to scurry off to
single user mode if it gets too fancy ;^)
Thanks!
rbw
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