On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:50, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Nov 3, 2004, at 9:31 PM, Gareth Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:47:48 +1300, eBhakta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Yes, it's Debian based... At what stage of the boot process should > >> "ctrl-alt-F1" be applied? Did get to the cursor, and typed in > >> "apt-get"... > >> but it wouldn't recognise the command. Serious newbie stuff... :$ > > > > oops, I kinda assumed you already knew about apt-get. You will need to > > be root to run that command. type 'su', then enter your root password, > > then try it again. you might also like to read 'man apt-get'. if you > > intend to use a debian based system you'll need to at some point :) > > > It's Ubuntu - use 'sudo' instead of 'su', otherwise the instructions > are fine. > > ("There Is No Root" in Ubuntu, rather like in OS X ...) > > -jim >
sudo passwd root, and then root can be logged in. there is a root account, it is not passworded by default. the first user made can do anything via sudo