On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 01:10 -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote: > On first (working) boot the little wizard came up, and I decided to see > if I could really shoot myself in the foot, by skipping configuring a > user, and having a disabled root account. Indeed I could, this may or > may not be something that is worth fixing/checking up on. Also NTP > configuration wouldn't work, claiming it couldn't write to the > appropriate file. This whole area will get reinforced for Beta / Final. What we have now is just what we figured was a minimum baseline: for a graphical install it'll work if you follow the defaults (don't set a root password, create a user account which is an admin), for a non-graphical install, you have to create a root password during install. (For a while there was *no* root password spoke in anaconda, and firstboot didn't default to creating an admin user; the 'fixes' for Alpha were to add the optional root PW spoke, and to make firstboot default to creating an admin user). The NTP bug is known, I believe. > So a reboot into rescue mode was necessary to actually add a user > account and set the password for root just in case. Which is essentially > my way of saying rescue mode is very important, I noticed discussion at > one point of not having it included in the alpha, I reckon that would > have been a bad thing. Well, bear in mind you can use pretty much any live image for rescue purposes. When I installed a system in this state I fixed it up from an F17 live image, not rescue mode. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
