As you may know, when installing 10.1 (at least beta 8), if you stop the install after the first cd, you get stuck by a wrong root login. having this problem, and knowing the lost root passwd is very frequent on the net, I setup a sdb page (in french, sorry). I nearly invented a new way to circomvent a somewhat better protection on the new (10.x) systems - it's no more sufficient --at least in this case-- to blank the passwd field. http://fr.opensuse.org/J'ai_perdu_le_mot_de_passe_root given the hardness of the subject I would be glad if some of you could check the solution on a testbed system (NOT on production system, please :-); I did this on a VMware install. thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos