On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 22:32, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:59, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > My son is returning home to live for a few months - so thought I
> > would add him as new user. Used 'adduser' name
> >
> > There was no prompt for a password so di
Add a new user:
% useradd adrian
Set the password for user adrian:
% passwd adrian
Enter new password for adrian:
Confirm new password:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Hi there
My son is returning home to live for a few months - so thought I would add him
as new user. Used 'adduser' name
There was
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:59, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> Hi there
>
> My son is returning home to live for a few months - so thought I would add
> him as new user. Used 'adduser' name
>
> There was no prompt for a password so did not do anything else. On the next
> free line I added the pass
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:59, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> Hi there
>
> My son is returning home to live for a few months - so thought I
> would add him as new user. Used 'adduser' name
>
> There was no prompt for a password so did not do anything else.
> On the next free line I added the pass
Hi there
My son is returning home to live for a few months - so thought I would add him
as new user. Used 'adduser' name
There was no prompt for a password so did not do anything else. On the next
free line I added the password, wondering if it was needed. Then exited
konosle. Attempted to
Best thing to do:
log in through Grub, and become root.
Run linuxconf and go to the boot section. Let lilo become the boot manager,
best to select the textmode one. Reboot and you can get into single user mode
with
linux 1
or
linux single
Paul
>>The problem with the LILO prompt, is that it rea
Eric,
Unfortunately since I've never used GRUB, I'm not sure of how to get into
single user mode from it, which is why I'm cc'ing this to the list.
Michael
At 10:44 AM 07/24/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>The problem with the LILO prompt, is that it really isn't a prompt. When I
>boot my machine a pr
.
Hope this helps.
>--
>From: Eric[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 24 July 2001 02:17
>To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] New user
>
>Thanks for your help Alan. One problem though. I can't figure it out.
>
>This is it from the start.
>
>
At 07:17 PM 07/23/2001 -0600, Eric wrote:
Thanks for your help Alan. One problem though. I can't figure it out.
This is it from the start.
I boot/restart my machine.
It logs into DOS and I have a couple options: Linux, Windows, and others.
Ok...are you using lnx4win, or an act
Thanks for your help Alan. One problem though.
I can't figure it out.This is it from the start.I boot/restart
my machine.It logs into DOS and I have a couple options: Linux,
Windows, and others.I hit enter on Linux and then it starts scrolling
telling me what things arebeing started up, at
Hi all,
I signed on a couple of days ago and have learnt a lot so far.
Anyone out there set up Mandrake 7.1 on a Toshiba laptop or
similar (mine is satellite 2550CDT Cel. 366, 64mb, 4Gb) - I just want
some idea of possible pitfalls before I start off.
It will have to be dual boot for now - I
craig jameson wrote:
>
> I have just recently installed Linux on my system (mandrake6.1) and I am
> having a few problems in changing over from Windows (maybe I should not
> have put a capitol at the start of it?) please can anyone help with any
> of the following, bearing in mind that I have onl
I have just recently installed Linux on my system (mandrake6.1) and I am
having a few problems in changing over from Windows (maybe I should not
have put a capitol at the start of it?) please can anyone help with any
of the following, bearing in mind that I have only been using Linux for
a week an
Alan Pitts wrote:
> Would someone also be kind enough to tell me the correct way to close down,
> exit linux from either kde and/or gnome so that I can reboot into windows.
Sorry, can't help you with the screen problem, but many people here can!
If you will log out of kde or gnome (hit the X on
Xconfigurator or xf86config should fix the display problem. To exit either
kde or gnome, you click on the "logout" button which looks like a padlock
under kde and, I believe, is under the "foot" menu in gnome and is labeled
simply "log out" or something of the sort.
To reboot your computer, you
Hi,
Apologies if this is received twicemy fault...I'm having a Monday on a
Friday.
I have just installed the Deluxe Linux-Mandrake 6.0
systemapparently successfuly - Lilo boots into both windows and linux
!
My problem is that the display I see in Linux is
far too big for my scre
Hi,
I have just installed the Deluxe Linux-Mandrake 6.0
systemapparently successfuly - Lilo boots into both windows and linux
!
My problem is that the display I see in Linux is
far too big for my screen ! It's like holding a magazine right up to your
face so that you can't see the per
I had problems running any of the apps after logging in as a normal
user.
I click on the shell icon and pressed ctrl-alt-F1and all I see is
sh:/lib/cpp: No such file or directory
stdin: is not a tty
Does this mean anything?
I am kinda wondering if I didn't have certain things installed in orde
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