RE: Installing Fedora 12

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Ah... No....

At the login screen it displays "Other..." pressing ctl-f1 displays a blue
box underneath it saying "Choose another Account" and nothing else. The only
other key that does anything is the "Enter" key and that takes me back to
where I was entering root as a user id.

Pressing Alt f2 does absolutely nothing.

I last installed Fedora 9 on this box, many years ago and I didn't seem to
have any problems until one of the hard drives went bad. 

Is there anything else I can try?

Nathan Woodruff 

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jack craig
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 1:00 PM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: Installing Fedora 12

sure, just do the ctl-f1, login as root, use the user_add cli to create 
your non-root user.

On 04/26/2010 09:54 AM, Nathan Woodruff wrote:
> I seem to believe that it never gave me the option to create a user
account.
>
> Can I do it now with out another 6 hour install?
>
> Nathan Woodruff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Berg
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 12:37 PM
> To: Community support for Fedora users
> Subject: Re: Installing Fedora 12
>
>
>    
>> I've downloaded the Fedora 12 desktop edition and I've installed it now
>> three times on a U2 server of ours. Every time after the reboot of the
>> newly
>> installed system, I get the login screen. The first time when I
installed,
>> I
>> used a password that I always use as a default, at least I thought, I
>> wasn't
>> 100% sure. I typed in "root" with out the quotes and type in the default
>> password that I always use. "Authentication Failed" and doesn't log on.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Nathan Woodruff
>>      
> By default these days X does not allow root login.  If you switch over to
> a terminal console (e.g. Alt-F2) and try that it should work just fine.
> Did you try to create a user account and login with that during the
> installation?  Once you get the install finish the root/GUI login
> restriction can be disabled if you desire.
>
>    

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Jack Craig
Software Engineer
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www.extraview.com

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