Errol Stagg wrote: >If you installed Mandrake 8.2, and if I have understood you correctly, you >should have had the option of logging in as a single user without having to >enter your user name and password every time you use the operating system, >as in Windoze! >Perhaps some one can suggest a way of making this alteration via the root >password without having to reinstall. > >Sursum Corda > >Errol Stagg > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Helio S. Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:17 PM >Subject: Re: [newbie] problem using linux > > >>What kind of login is that? >>Normally Linux installs LILO (LInux LOader) in the >>MBR (Master Boot Record) and prompts you to choose >>which OS to Load: Linux or Winblows. >> >>In order to remove LILO from the MBR, boot with your >>Win98 Boot-disk (i hope you have it) and type: >> >>C:\>fdisk /mbr >> >>This will uninstall LILO fom the MBR. >> >>Hope that Helps. >> >>Best Regards, >> >>H3li0 >> >> >>--- Prabhas Kunisetty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Hellow, >>> >>>I faced a problem in login linux, i installed the >>>software from a cd which is freely supplied with a >>>magzine . i installed the software, it automatically >>>partionied my hard disk, when i started my computer >>>it is asking a login , how to bypass that login , >>>how should i use with out login, my operating system >>>is windows 98, 256mb ram , 40gb hard disk, how >>>should i uninstall the linux software from windows, >>>because i cant able to login linux >>> >>>please help me >>> >>> >>> >>>bye............... >>> >>>kachi >>>
When you installed the software you were asked to set a password.... Now it seems you may have forgotten it. Am I correct? The easy way to change the root password is At the linux boot screen, type linux single and when it comes up you will see a black screen with a prompt like this # Now you type # passwd And you can change the password to something you know (like 111) Now to help you more than that you need to run this command # uname -a and write down what it says, so we knoe what we are dealing with. LOTS of linux disks have appeared in magazines, and we need to know which one. After that # reboot will get you started Your login name is root Your password is 111 Now you can add other users and so on. If it is MandrakeLinux, I can instruct you further on how to set up users and to set up autologin, but I really really need to know the version, which the uname output will give me unequivocally. Civileme >>>
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