Hello Fernando, Le samedi 24 juillet 2010 à 15:14 -0300, Fernando Cassia a écrit : > The problem is that Ubuntu (Netbook remix is what I´m using but I > suppose the regular Ubuntu does as well) comes with the root account > disabled by default. Technically I think that they just don't set a root password (and lock the password to prevent it being set) which prevents direct logins as root. As you discovered, you can still access the root account indirectly using "sudo su" or whatever.
> But I disgress. Back to Virtualbox. "SU" not working was the first problem. > The second problem was finding where Ubuntu Netbook Remix mounts the > CD/DVD media. I think that at least Redhat/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, SUSE and Mandriva have been using /media for automatic mounts for a few years now, so this would not be Ubuntu-specific. Several versions of Ubuntu used /media/cdrom<n> rather than /media/<volume name> as most Linux systems do, but the current Ubuntu seems to have switched to the common practice. I suppose that the real question here is how much should we document things which are "common knowledge" for a particular distribution, given that we deal with quite a number of different ones, and that some things, like the media mounting location, differ in different versions of the same distribution? I personally tend to treat the things you pointed out as basic knowledge for anyone who uses the command line in Ubuntu. Regards, Michael -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineer 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
