On Thursday 19 February 1998 06:49, Robert Stevens wrote: > I purchased a computer on ebay with Fedora core. The > Fedora core boots up, but asks for a user name and > password and I can't go any further. The seller is not > helpful. Is there any way I can get past the user name > and password. This is a gateway computer. The computer > is useless to me as it is. Bob Maybe the seller is the true owner and expects you to install your own OS. Do like the others said and install a new OS.