Re: password
Darren Smith wrote:
> Hi I know this sounds silly but Ive installed linux debian and everything went very well i thought but I came to the end when I hit a login prompt which i thought i had written login and passwords down but its not working.Can you help me please.
Boot from your installation media, but don't install. Use ALT-F2 to
select the other virtual console giving you a root terminal. Use that
mount your new system and to set a new password there.
Example commands below. Note "example" as you will need to change
your commands accordingly.
ALT-F2
mkdir /new
mount /dev/hda1 /new
chroot /new /bin/bash
passwd root
exit
reboot
Note this question would be better asked in debian-user and not
debian-cd.
Bob
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