The install completed, then it rebooted and came up with a text screen, "welcome to opensuse 10.2 (i586) - Kernel 2.6.18.2-34-default (tty1)." and "Linux login:" If I type "root" and hit enter, I get "login incorrect", it doesn't ask me for a password. If I type anything else, it asks me for a password. There must be some default user else why would it ask me for a username and password. I did a google search and found some other people who had encountered the exact same thing, but nobody had answered their questions either. Please, if someone has actually encountered this and has solved the problem, can you post your solution, or if it is not solvable, let me know, I'll find another box to install on. Thanks, Joel joe wrote:

jbrave wrote:

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Hi, just installing Suse 10.2 on a box for the first time. (an old celeron 450). The installer would not run with a gui, it used a text-only install. After the isntall, the system booted to a text prompt "linux login:"

There was never ever in the process a request that I create a username or password.

What is the default username and password? A google search turned up Admin and opensuse as the password. Nope. Admin may be the username.

There is no "Admin" on unix, and there is no default password. The unix superuser account is root, and at some point during the install, the suse installer will ask you to type the password that you want to assign to root.

If you never got to that point, perhaps you didn't ever finish the install. It does boot after the base system is installed, then comes up to finish the install with things like root password, network configuration etc.

Joe

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Hi, IT is a 450mhz celeron, 512mb ram. The install completed in terms of all 5 cd's loaded and it completed and rebooted. I said "yes" to all options (except to install Fortune). Joel Sloan wrote:

Something seems to have gone very wrong with your install - I haven't done a text install lately so there may be something different in the format, but during the install, there has to be a specific point where one is prompted to choose and enter a root password. If you never got to that point, the install somehow didn't ever finish. How much RAM and CPU are in the machine you tried to install on?

Joe

jbrave wrote:

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The install completed, then it rebooted and came up with a text screen,

"welcome to opensuse 10.2 (i586) - Kernel 2.6.18.2-34-default (tty1)."

and "Linux login:"

If I type "root" and hit enter, I get "login incorrect", it doesn't ask me for a password. If I type anything else, it asks me for a password. There must be some default user else why would it ask me for a username and password.

I did a google search and found some other people who had encountered the exact same thing, but nobody had answered their questions either. Please, if someone has actually encountered this and has solved the problem, can you post your solution, or if it is not solvable, let me know, I'll find another box to install on.

Thanks,

Joel

joe wrote:

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jbrave wrote:

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Hi, just installing Suse 10.2 on a box for the first time. (an old celeron 450). The installer would not run with a gui, it used a text-only install. After the isntall, the system booted to a text prompt "linux login:"

There was never ever in the process a request that I create a username or password.

What is the default username and password? A google search turned up Admin and opensuse as the password. Nope. Admin may be the username.

There is no "Admin" on unix, and there is no default password. The unix superuser account is root, and at some point during the install, the suse installer will ask you to type the password that you want to assign to root.

If you never got to that point, perhaps you didn't ever finish the install. It does boot after the base system is installed, then comes up to finish the install with things like root password, network configuration etc.

Joe

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On 7/10/07, jbrave wrote:

Hi,

IT is a 450mhz celeron, 512mb ram. The install completed in terms of all 5 cd's loaded and it completed and rebooted. I said "yes" to all options (except to install Fortune).

Joel

As others pointed out - looks like your setup did not went too well. You may try to see if you see something wrong. First, try booting again, but during the bootup splash, hit Esc, so you see all messages the kernel is reporting during the boot process, see if there are some errors. If the screen goes too fast, you can scroll back with Ctrl-PgUp. Also, boot from the install CD, but select Rescue system. It should allow you to login as root w/o password, as you did not set any yet. Then, check what you have in /etc/passwd: cat /etc/passwod. See if there is a line for a user, which cas ID of 1000, something like: <someuser>:x:1000:100:<something>:/home/<someuser>:/bin/bash I doubt that you can see such a line, but who knows. If you find some user, you may try to log in using it and empty password. Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

jbrave wrote:

Better now:

booted in single user mode

set root password

rebooted

This time it took "root" as the login, and I was able to log in. No gui though, just one full text screen. Is there a way to launch gui from here? Hmm, I hesitate to continue on this track since the install was not successfully completed. But since (IIRC) it was unable to launch a GUI during the install, there would be no GUI configured. Something has gone very wrong, and rather than continue down this path, it's probably a good idea to back up and find out what went wrong.

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Ah, the old "less than 96 MB available" bug - is there a place to enable/disable some sort of "memory hole" in the BIOS? Joe jbrave wrote:

Thanks all. I tend to think that whatever the problem is, it has to do with this old beater computer I'm experimenting with.

FYI, the error that I get when trying to install in the first place, is something like 'cannot start YAST gui, less than 96mb available, then it goes to the text install mode. The drive has 80gb or more, the computer has 512mb ram, and I tried various settings for the AGP aperature in the event that had anything to do with it, currently set to 256mb...

Joel

Sloan wrote:

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jbrave wrote:

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Better now:

booted in single user mode

set root password

rebooted

This time it took "root" as the login, and I was able to log in. No gui though, just one full text screen. Is there a way to launch gui from here?

Hmm, I hesitate to continue on this track since the install was not successfully completed. But since (IIRC) it was unable to launch a GUI during the install, there would be no GUI configured. Something has gone very wrong, and rather than continue down this path, it's probably a good idea to back up and find out what went wrong.

Joe

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* Sloan [07-10-07 17:45]:

Ah, the old "less than 96 MB available" bug - is there a place to enable/disable some sort of "memory hole" in the BIOS?

or, possibly, no swap space defined ???? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

If you let yast partition the disk for you, it will create a swap partition. OTOH if you partition manually, you have to partition manually. Joe jbrave wrote:

Hmm - I partitioned it to use the entire disk as one partition - doesn't it automatically create a swap file?

Joel

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Sloan [07-10-07 17:45]:

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Ah, the old "less than 96 MB available" bug - is there a place to enable/disable some sort of "memory hole" in the BIOS?

or, possibly, no swap space defined ????

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Hi James, so do I just log in as root, do steps one and two, and then reboot? Thanks, Joel James Tremblay wrote:

I have seen this before, you can fix it by either running a live cd or the rescue cd and set the machine to invoke the firstboot routine.

1. As root, create a file called /etc/reconfig_system by entering

touch /etc/reconfig_system

2. Enable the firstboot service by entering the following at the command line as root:

insserv firstboot

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Hi James, I did this, but still no GUI, can't launch kde (gives a bunch of mkdir errors). Command line linux seems to be functioning however, I can launch the text version of YAST. Also, the "configure graphics" section of YAST briefly brings up a gui after it tests the graphics card, then, after you click "ok" back to command line. During the bootup, a gui appears for about 1/2 second. What do you expect should have happened after I followed those steps? Joel James Tremblay wrote:

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 17:16 -0700, jbrave wrote:

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Hi James,

so do I just log in as root, do steps one and two, and then reboot?

Thanks,

Joel

James Tremblay wrote:

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I have seen this before, you can fix it by either running a live cd or the rescue cd and set the machine to invoke the firstboot routine.

1. As root, create a file called /etc/reconfig_system by entering

touch /etc/reconfig_system

2. Enable the firstboot service by entering the following at the command line as root:

insserv firstboot

Yes.

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On 7/10/07, jbrave wrote:

Thanks all. I tend to think that whatever the problem is, it has to do with this old beater computer I'm experimenting with.

FYI, the error that I get when trying to install in the first place, is something like 'cannot start YAST gui, less than 96mb available, then it goes to the text install mode. The drive has 80gb or more, the computer has 512mb ram, and I tried various settings for the AGP aperature in the event that had anything to do with it, currently set to 256mb...

Joel

Ok, lets try this - start some live distro - like knoppix or INSERT Linux (the latter one is only 60MB download). Use the partitioning tool - like gparted, and create a swap partition with the size of 1G. Then reboot and start a new install. The installer will use the created swap partition if the memory for running it is not enough. Also, make sure that before the install starts, you check all CDs, there is check media option, so you know that there's nothing wrong with the install CDs themselves. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

jbrave wrote:

Better now:

booted in single user mode

set root password

rebooted

This time it took "root" as the login, and I was able to log in. No gui though, just one full text screen. Is there a way to launch gui from here?

Assuming you've installed some desktop, type "startx". BTW, create a user, instead of running as root. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org