On 10/14/2021 11:43 PM, Gregory A. Lewis wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 13:38 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:On 10/14/2021 10:19 AM, Gregory A. Lewis wrote:Yesterday I installed Debian 11.1.0, 3 times. I installed with debian-11.1.0-i386-netinst.iso and I was connected to the internet with a cable and and ethernet. I installed 3 times because I couldn't get the root password to set. I know what the passwords that I used were. I even opened the visual view of my passwords so I wouldn't make a mistake, but after setting up and finishing install they did not work. As last resort on the third try I tried 'sudo passwd root' and that flew. It's aproblembut at least the solution is simple right now. You don't want your root password floating in a setup stream anyway Thsnk you. Csn you recommend a manual for setting up auxiliary accounts on the same machine ? Thank you again. Gregory LewisI just did an install using https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-11.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso without *ANY* problems. Check your source.As stated above I used the i386 netinst image to install my Debian 11.1.0
Apologies. I didn't pay close attention to that detail. If your machine has a 32bit processor you do want to use the i386 image. I also suggest this thread would be appropriate on debian-user.
system downloaded from Debian.org but what I did not say was that I did no verification of the image and I downloaded under HTTP. I did have the problem with the root password not being written to the system, or some malfunction. With the modern multi core cpu's, should I have actually used the amd64 image? I couldn't get amd64 OR the i386 image to boot off of a (slightly used) memory stick, so I burned it to a CD. The hardware device that the system was being installed on is a refurbished Dell Optiplex 380. I could add one more detall in that device that I used to download the images was a vintage Mac. Thank you Gregory Lewis