On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:18:16AM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 09:40, Rowland Fellows wrote: > > I am able to install 3.0 successfully from the disk images I've > > downloaded from Oregon State. However, once installed, the system goes > > directly into a login screen from which I cannot login into root. How > > to I get the system to boot in such a way that I can log in as root? You want to login to X as root? That's nearly[1] always a bad idea. Use sudo or su as Craig suggested. > Log in as a regular user and su. If you didn't create a regular user > during the install, it would be easy to ssh from another computer > as root. Failing that, start Linux in single user mode by typing single after > linux when lilo first starts. Or hit ctrl+alt+f1 to get to a VT. [1] As far as I can tell, it's never a good idea, but I bet someone will reply with some good reason to do it. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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