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Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops



On Monday, 3. January 2005 13.29, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> El jue, 30-12-2004 a las 13:28 -0400, Derek Broughton escribió:
> [...]
>
> > Ubuntu installed on my Dell Inspiron right out of the box.  Too bad I
> > forgot what I used for the root password :-)
>
>   Boot from Ubuntu Live CD or Knoppix, mount root partition on /mnt or
> something like that, edit /et/passwd, delete the 'x' between your user
> and uid. Reboot with your usual installation from HD. Your root's
> password should be blank now.
>
>   Cheers,

or try "sudo su" as far as I know Ubuntu doesn't set a root pwd.

Greets

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