Re-hi all, Last night I successfully (apparently) installed OpenSuse 10.2. It was getting late and I let it run its course when I went to bed. This morning it looked like the only thing I needed to do was set username and password but for some reason, it wasn't working. In the interest of time and checking e-mail before I went to work, I went ahead and checked mail via Windows. Tonight, I attempted to boot into OpenSuse but was confronted with the sign-on. I tried what I normally would have used as a root username and password unsuccessfully. The same with my normal username and password. I have not set them but don't know how now to do that? Any clues? It is installed but I have not yet assigned a password for root (nor is root recognized without a password (which I have not yet assigned) and I certainly have not yet assigned a regular username and password. :( Any help would be appreciated. Best Regards, Rob Fleetwood Rockville, MD Jonathan Arnold wrote:

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Greetings all. I'm preparing to install OpenSuse 10.2 and have been browsing the web reading various installation instructions (just to make sure I don't go an overwrite my MBR or something else stupid) and came across the following...

Quote - You will see now a summary of the Installation Settings, which comes in a Standard (default) and Expert (for power users) view. I will suggest using an empty hard drive for this installation; that means no other operating system on it, ok? The partition process is automatic and it will erase all your data from the selected hard drive. Unquote -

I have my hard drive split into two different partitions by Partition Magic. Can I safely assume I may substitute "selected partition" for "selected hard drive" above? I've never run into such a draconian warning with any other Linux distribution and I have installed several over the years, always with a dual boot arrangement with Windows.

Thanks in advance.

Rob

Well...I attempted to install once again tonight and was confronted with the following Installation Summary:

* Delete logical volume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 (68.8 gb) *Delete logical volume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 (1.9 gb) *Remove volume group VolGroup00 *Delete partition /dev/sda2 (101.9 gb) *Delete partition /dev/sda3 (70.8 gb *Delete partition /dev/sda5(? hard to read on the screen) (70.8 gb)

Needless to say, I did not procede further with the installation. :(

That's what it will do by default. But if you just click on the Partition selection, you can select from a bunch of different option, including picking whatever partition you want.

And yeah, pick an empty partition, not necessarily an empty hard drive, is the way to go.

My favorite online installation guide is here:

http://www.opensuse.computerlanguages.org/install.php

And be sure to check out Hacking 10.2 here:

http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60/

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RTF wrote:

Re-hi all,

Last night I successfully (apparently) installed OpenSuse 10.2. It was getting late and I let it run its course when I went to bed. This morning it looked like the only thing I needed to do was set username and password but for some reason, it wasn't working. In the interest of time and checking e-mail before I went to work, I went ahead and checked mail via Windows. Tonight, I attempted to boot into OpenSuse but was confronted with the sign-on. I tried what I normally would have used as a root username and password unsuccessfully. The same with my normal username and password. I have not set them but don't know how now to do that? Any clues? It is installed but I have not yet assigned a password for root (nor is root recognized without a password (which I have not yet assigned) and I certainly have not yet assigned a regular username and password. :(

It's not exactly clear what you did, but it sounds like you just rebooted the computer while it was asking for the username/password for the first user. Not sure why "it wasn't working". So this means you have no user and no password. You can't log in as root from the graphical user interface, as it is generally consider a security hole to allow it. So you need to add a user as root. Ctrl-Alt-F2 (all at the same time) will bring you to a text terminal. Log in as root, using the password I think you probably already gave it (I think this comes up before you add the new user). Once you get to the prompt, type in 'useradd username', of course replacing 'username' with the username of choice. Answer a few questions (the defaults should be fine) and then Ctrl-Alt-F7 back to the graphical login screen. Now you should be able to log in as your user If the root login doesn't work, you're in trouble. Because you need the root password by default to boot into single user mode, I think the only option is to boot with a Live CD of some sort, mount the opensuse / partition and edit the /etc/passwd file, and clear root's password field. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Kenneth Schneider wrote:

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:15 -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote:

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Re-hi all,

Last night I successfully (apparently) installed OpenSuse 10.2. It was getting late and I let it run its course when I went to bed. This morning it looked like the only thing I needed to do was set username and password but for some reason, it wasn't working. In the interest of time and checking e-mail before I went to work, I went ahead and checked mail via Windows. Tonight, I attempted to boot into OpenSuse but was confronted with the sign-on. I tried what I normally would have used as a root username and password unsuccessfully. The same with my normal username and password. I have not set them but don't know how now to do that? Any clues? It is installed but I have not yet assigned a password for root (nor is root recognized without a password (which I have not yet assigned) and I certainly have not yet assigned a regular username and password. :( It's not exactly clear what you did, but it sounds like you just rebooted

RTF wrote: the computer while it was asking for the username/password for the first user. Not sure why "it wasn't working". So this means you have no user and no password. You can't log in as root from the graphical user interface,

Root CAN log into the graphical interface, you need to type the name manually (as well as the root password).

Yup, you're right. Hadn't even actually tried it on openSUSE, as it is almost always disabled these days. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org