Re: CentOS 4.8

["Y. K. Liu" <ykliu7@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Robert and Bowie, for your help. The problem is resolved now (please see my previous email). Thank you, all, so much, anyway.

Jerry

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2/3/2011 4:43 PM, Y. K. Liu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed CentOS 4.8 (not CentOS 5) on VMware Fusion using an ISO
> file I downloaded. During the installation, it asked me to enter a
> user name and its password. I tried to enter root for the user name,
> but it would not let me do that. So I had to enter a non-root user name.
>
> So I did not have the root user name and password when the
> installation completed. I only had a non-privileged user name, and
> could not do any sudo work. How can I solve this problem?
>
> I noticed that CentOS 5 (not the 4.8 I needed to install) asking to
> enter the password for root during the installation. But I need to
> install CentOS 4.8, not 5.

All CentOS 4.x installations should ask for the root password during
installation.  And the stupid question must be asked:  Are you sure you
didn't enter a root password when thinking it was asking for a user
password?  Try your user password on root and see what happens.

IIRC, the installation process is this:

1) Get base installation info including root password
2) Install system
3) Reboot
4) Perform post install setup including at least one user account

--
Bowie
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