Raymond: In item (2), don't press Alt-F1 to get to the second screen, type Alt-F2. Sorry, that minor typo could cause you all sorts of headaches.
I think the rest of the post is factually correct. Marc ---------- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 ---------- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> "Marc Mongeon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/15 4:29 PM >>> Raymond: Here's what I'd try: 1. Boot with the Custom Boot Floppy. Try logging in as root with no password (just hit <Enter> at the "password:" prompt). Then try every reasonable permu- tation of what you think is your password, keeping in mind that case is import- ant to Unix. 2. If (1) doesn't work, boot with the Rescue Floppy. At the "Boot:" prompt, type "root=/dev/hda1" (if your root partition is /dev/hda1; do you remember how you set it up during the first install?). This should get you to the first screen of the install process. Now type Alt-F1. You should be at a terminal screen with a "#" prompt. Do you remember being prompted during the install whether you wanted to use shadow passwords? If you chose to use shadow passwords, now type "vi /etc/shadow"; otherwise, type "vi /etc/passwd". What you're doing here is editing the password file. You should see a line that looks like this: root:<a bunch of letters here>:0:<a bunch of other stuff> Delete the stuff between "root:" and ":0" (don't delete the colons, though). If you don't know vi, here's a crash course: use the arrow keys to position the cursor over the first character after the first colon. Type "x" until all of those letters have disappeared. Type ":wq". When you type ":", a colon appears at the bottom of the screen; "wq" means "write and quit". OK, you've deleted the root password, so you should be able to login as root after you re-boot. Now type "shutdown -h now". Wait for a message that says "System halted". Put in the Custom Boot Floppy and re-boot the computer. Can you login as root with no password now? I hope all that made sense. Marc ---------- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 ---------- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> raymond ferrari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/15 4:04 PM >>> Marc: it was in access that I had the problem. Prior to me going into that screen, I had picked std. workstation. Do I have to use Access and pick one listed here. This is where I picked multi_cds.by accident(I was actually using a single cd picked up at Linux World). I cannot boot into Linux with my Boot Magic loader. It starts to load Linux but stops with an underline cursor, and freezes. I have to then shut off my machine. Cntl./alt/del won't work. Should I be using my Custom Boot Floppy or the Rescue Floppy. I can login as user when I put the Custom Boot Floppy in, but it won't accept root. I wrote down my root password, so I know I have it right. Is there a way I can check on my password for root, to make sure the second time I inputted the password it took it right? thanks for your help. ray ferrari Marc Mongeon wrote: > Raymond: > > First device on second controller is /dev/hdc. Can you boot Linux at > this point? If so, just log in as root and run dselect again. Make sure > your access method is correct, skip the select phase, and go right to > install. If you can't boot Linux, you should probably just start the install > from scratch-- sucks, I know, but things always go more smoothly the > second time around :). > > Marc > > ---------- > Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Unix Specialist > Ban-Koe Systems > 9100 W Bloomington Fwy > Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 > (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 > ---------- > "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." > -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" > > >>> raymond ferrari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/15 2:19 PM >>> > The last couple days have been going thru a new install with win95 on > the machine. Everything proceeded great...slow paced...and methodical > until I got to dselect. I decided to use a profile(std workstation) but > wanted to look in dselect to check it out. I went to 'access' and > somehow I must have picked multi _ cds because the next screen asked me > to put in a CD and specify /dev/cdrom. This is where I got stuck and > could not go anywhere. I tried dev/hdb1. It recognizes the CD iso9660 > just can't mount. I tried mount and other commands I could find under > the cd-rom how to. My CD-ROM is internal, NEC 3001A 17x-40x. During > setup, I used "the first ? on the secondary controller. This seemed to > work fine. I had to do a cntr/alt/del and I was able to get back to > windows. I am using Boot Magic to dual boot. How do I get back to where > I was; installing the packages? so I can finish with my installation. I > tried to cold boot with the custom floppy I made but won't let me in as > root. I know I have to signed in as root to use dselect. I am really > looking forward to getting this part behind me. Thanks for all your > help.Ray Ferrari. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
