Hi, Bob. On 11/07/16 22:02, Bob Holtzman wrote: > Running a new hard drive in my Thinkpad 420 laptop and trying to install > jessie. Everything went fine until it failed to configure the net work > with dns. Strange, since I had a good connection to the modem and was > getting a signal at the ethernet connection where the cable connected to > the laptop. > > That wasn't a show stopper since I could configure manually once the > installation was complete. > > The installation proceeded smoothly to the end and I tried to log in. > That's where the wheels came off. The os wouldn't take the password no > matter how many tries there were. > > I've run into this before and it always ended in a reinstall, which > didn't always solve the problem. Something that maybe you could try is to boot using a livecd, make a chroot to "/" and run "passwd" to set the password for the user that the system is not taking. Kind regards, Daniel
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