Subject: Cannot login as root (new user) From: ryanph@mrl.dsto.gov.au Date: 26 Jan 1993 09:43:03 +1100
Problems, problems, problems
Hi
I'm a relative Unix newbie - although I have used DEC Ultrix and SG Irix
systems. I just recently found out that there are these two free implementaions
of Unix for 386s and above: 386bsd and Linux.
I have been _trying_ to install Linux via SLS (any of the series, starting with
the 'a' series of course). I think that I first got 0.99p2 and have since found
out that there were problems ++ with that. So I downloaded again (from
sunsite.unc.edu because the Australian mirror at kirk.bu.oz.au has garbled
files).
This time the installation process got as far as getting me to logging in -
i.e. it thinks that it has installed all the packages on disks a1 to a4 (and it
took some time to do this - so I am not talking about the earlier problem that
I and other people faced of 'doinstall' not actually doing anything with the
installation disks). However, it will not accept 'root' as a login!
There might be some problem with the login directory - as there are a series of
error messages about them - but how can I do anything about them? Re-installing
does _not_ help.
(Is 386bsd less hazardous to install?)
Phil Ryan
Melbourne