Re: Installing Fedora 12

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sorry, ctl-alt-f1 ???

On 04/26/2010 10:12 AM, Nathan Woodruff wrote:
> 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
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