Bug#340776: Installation report debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded 22 Nov 2005
Quoting richard@sheugh.com (richard@sheugh.com):
> I think that immediately after the first re-boot I was either asked
> for a password or was presented with a prompt. I hit return and found
> myself logged in as the root user. I cannot be sure that I ignored a
*that* is really surprising. You should have entered the "base-config"
step which finishes the installation (setup root pwd, turn shadow
passwords on and so on).
Investigating what could have triggered this could be tricky....unless
you can retry the install..:-)
> No question was asked, and I will file this problem as a bug
> against exim4. It may seem trivial, but loss of access to mail
No, don't. This is *also* because the base-config step didn't run. So
no need to bug exim4 maintainers with this.
> caused me a lot of problems. Apologies for misleading you.
>
> Pardon my curiosity, but do you know why my IDE hard disk and the
> DVD-ram disk at /dev/hda and /dev/hdd cannot be accessed?
No idea actually....
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