On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 14:34 +0100, François Patte wrote: > [snip] > If I ask passwd, I have 1 second to type the password before falling > back to prompt... So I can't type anything! > > WHAT A MESS! > > Well, here's what Fedora says to do: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/23/html/System_Administrato rs_Guide/sec-Changing_and_Resetting_the_Root_Password.html Sometimes these guidelines are a bit outdated, but it's a starting point, I guess. Personally, when I do an install, I do it in stages. I'll do a minimal installation, and then install all my software, environments, etc. later. That way, if something in the basic install screws up, I can do a reinstall more quickly -- in 15-30 mins or so. I used to try to install everything at the beginning, but ended up with having to repeat hour to 2 hour long installs. As an aside, my experience has been the opposite of yours. I did an upgrade that went well. About a week later, my dog knocked my laptop off the table, which caused physical damage to the hard drive. My box wouldn't boot -- many system files were damaged. So, I downloaded a small live version, and booted up. I was able to backup most of my home directory, and then did and fsck -c on the encrypted drive. About 2500 blocks were damaged, but it managed to rewrite the bad block inode. Then I installed fedora 25 from a live distro -- and it came up great. It took about 20 mins to install (and then an hour and a half to install all the software and such). billo _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
