Bo Berglund wrote: > I tried login as root and got a # prompt. For future reference, the command line syntax to create a user is just: useradd name Of course, you can look anywhere online to get much more command-line info, but normally you won't need it. > This brought me finally through it all without corruption and on to a > login screen where I could get into Fedora as root and add users etc. Great. :) > Is there some config app where the boot options can be set or do I > have to manually edit grub.conf??? Manually, I believe. It's usually not difficult, once you know which parameters you need. Matt Flaschen