Re: Help with Fedora installation

In comp.os.linux.misc, on Mon 06 February 2006 01:20, CWO4 Dave Mann
<misterfixit@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Heiming wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc CWO4 Dave Mann <misterfixit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Mr.C wrote:
Redoing the whole installation from scratch is a sledge hammer
approach,

well it is the sledge hammer approach. I made mention of starting
over

Sorry, but it sound like a doze approach.

because I interpreted his statement to mean that he had installed as
a single user as root but did not have or know the password.

Even if, he could mount the system from rescue image or boot with
init=/bin/bash and take the password out of shadow, set a new one
and go on adding a user for his personal use.


Yes, I know .. it is a Windows user approach.

However, I figured that the person must be a very new user and one who
possibly did not understand the installation process (and who had not
RTFM). That taken together with the thought that he must be a Windows
user trying out Linux caused me to point him in a Windows-Like
direction for his first baby steps.

So now, the OP knows that the "best" way to solve a configuration
problem with Linux is to re-install just like with Windoze. Well done!
--
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If it's there and you can't see it - it's transparent
If it's not there and you can see it - it's virtual
If it's not there and you can't see it - it's gone!
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