On Wednesday 15 November 2006 19:57, Craig White wrote: >On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:17 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I'm not sure why, Craig, but when I rebooted after the install, and >> firstboot ran, I expected it to ask me to setup a user account. But >> it didn't, and like the missing crontab file, which it appears I am >> not the only one on that point, I have NDI why. > >---- >depends how/what you install. > >I noticed a difference if I do a minimum install (no X, GNOME, etc.) >that firstboot is really basic and no user setup in TUI mode. There is a >big difference on firstboot between GUI and TUI. > And I did that install in text mode. I always boot to runlevel 3, login and do the startx from there, basicly so I'm not trapped in a restart x situation for 15 minutes until x gives up in case x miss-fires. >As for things like crontab and other anomalies, from install, I >personally find it hard to believe that the files just magically appear >as you had reported. Thankfully, I am not a package maintainer so I >wouldn't have to try to ascertain what didn't work as expected from the >bugzilla entry which you probably didn't create anyway. Since it's not a >bug if it isn't in bugzilla, your report to this list while curious and >possibly provocative ultimately can only be considered anecdotal. Bugzilla hates me I swear, on mondays, wednesdays and saturdays it will not accept my password. Or is it the other way around? Thats a PITA anyway. Since there are tools to let bugzilla know who's calling from their OS fingerprint, that ought to be good enough to let a linux user in & lock out the winderz weinies. But I'm not the bugzilla maintainer, thanks to God and greyhounds. :) >Craig -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
