Re: live CD root password?? -- UPDATE : real oddity
- From: Beartooth Sciurivore <beartooth@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:24:23 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:48:06 +0000, I Beartooth wrote:
With F8, at least, I can log in as user fedora, with no password; but if
I try to become root, it demands one. Where do I find it?
I have a machine with a newly dead hard drive, not worth
replacing, which does most of what little I still want from live CD; but
there are a couple things that would be nice to tweak ...
I had run DBAN against that hard drive; it would neither boot nor
accept a new install.
But then I discovered that, though I could not su, I could log
into the live CD as root. I played around with that for a while; then, on
a stray impulse, clicked on Install to Hard Drive.
It worked!
With the live CD gone, it has gone through firstboot, let me
install and remove things, done a whole yum update, let me run pirut,
rebooted, and the whole nine yards.
I don't pretend to understand what happened, nor why it worked;
and I have my doubts the poor old hard drive will last very much longer.
But it's a decidedly better situation while it lasts.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
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