On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Dahai Guo <guo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am building LFS 6.5 via LiveCD on VirtualBox. Now I am at chap 4 which > talks about adding users. > Everything went fine except that the added user was gone when I shut down the > machine and restarted it. I used "cat /etc/passwd" to list the users and did > not find the newly added user. > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! The thing is with LiveCDs, is that you don't want to reboot them, or you'll get a vanilla state, but you can mount the partitions and add the LFS user and contuine on with your build.
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