On 4/26/10, Nathan Woodruff <nathan.woodruff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ah... No.... > > At the login screen it displays "Other..." pressing ctl-f1 displays a blue > box underneath it saying "Choose another Account" and nothing else. The only > other key that does anything is the "Enter" key and that takes me back to > where I was entering root as a user id. > > Pressing Alt f2 does absolutely nothing. > > I last installed Fedora 9 on this box, many years ago and I didn't seem to > have any problems until one of the hard drives went bad. > > Is there anything else I can try? > > Nathan Woodruff > > -----Original Message----- > From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jack craig > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 1:00 PM > To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: Installing Fedora 12 > > sure, just do the ctl-f1, login as root, use the user_add cli to create > your non-root user. > > On 04/26/2010 09:54 AM, Nathan Woodruff wrote: >> I seem to believe that it never gave me the option to create a user > account. >> >> Can I do it now with out another 6 hour install? >> >> Nathan Woodruff >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Berg >> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 12:37 PM >> To: Community support for Fedora users >> Subject: Re: Installing Fedora 12 >> >> >> >>> I've downloaded the Fedora 12 desktop edition and I've installed it now >>> three times on a U2 server of ours. Every time after the reboot of the >>> newly >>> installed system, I get the login screen. The first time when I > installed, >>> I >>> used a password that I always use as a default, at least I thought, I >>> wasn't >>> 100% sure. I typed in "root" with out the quotes and type in the default >>> password that I always use. "Authentication Failed" and doesn't log on. >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >>> >>> Nathan Woodruff >>> >> By default these days X does not allow root login. If you switch over to >> a terminal console (e.g. Alt-F2) and try that it should work just fine. >> Did you try to create a user account and login with that during the >> installation? Once you get the install finish the root/GUI login >> restriction can be disabled if you desire. >> >> > > -- > Jack Craig > Software Engineer > 831.461.7100 x120 > www.extraview.com HI I use CTRL-ALT-FX where x is between 2 and 6 <Three Fingers...Same Time> My GUI is on F1 YMMV Marvin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
