On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:48:06 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: > With F8, at least, I can log in as user fedora, with no password; but if > I try to become root, it demands one. Where do I find it? > > I have a machine with a newly dead hard drive, not worth > replacing, which does most of what little I still want from live CD; but > there are a couple things that would be nice to tweak ... I had run DBAN against that hard drive; it would neither boot nor accept a new install. But then I discovered that, though I could not su, I could log into the live CD as root. I played around with that for a while; then, on a stray impulse, clicked on Install to Hard Drive. It worked! With the live CD gone, it has gone through firstboot, let me install and remove things, done a whole yum update, let me run pirut, rebooted, and the whole nine yards. I don't pretend to understand what happened, nor why it worked; and I have my doubts the poor old hard drive will last very much longer. But it's a decidedly better situation while it lasts. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
