Re: "Testing" Installation Headache
Þann 2006-10-12, 22:31:43 (+0100) skrifaði Peter Hillier-Brook:
> I've just installed Testing on an old 800MHz Pentium III. The
> installation seemed to go fine until the final 2 steps: I wasn't clear
> why a shell was invoked and then, having exited the shell the only
> option left was to abort the installation.
>
> Booting the new installation went well until the request for a user and
> password (in the GUI - Gnome I assume). Either the user, or the password
> was not recognised both for root and the default user I had created
> during the install.
>
> My question is; is there any recovery option other than a re-install? I
> have several live CDs and Knoppix comes up fine, although grml doesn't.
I think the directions here should work:
http://forums.osdir.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=251
the main theme is boot from live cd, mount the root partition, edit
your password file (be it /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow), delete the root
password in that file, boot again into linux on hard disk.
While booting it will ask for a root password and from there you can
continue.
HTH
Oli
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