gentoo go good

[Joshua Bergland]

You want to head over to forums.gentoo.org ... lots of good info and 
helpful people ... if you feel comfortable enough, you can download the 
install iso image and burn that to a cd, and then use the gentoo install 
document (link below) and follow it up to the point of running the 
'chroot' command to get into the gentoo linux environment on the 
system... you are then actually logged into the system as root and can 
run 'passwd' to change the root password.

Here is the link, it contains links to the install images ... Of course, 
just skip the part about creating the filesystems and since your not 
doing anything with the network, you can skip that part too... To make 
it easier, I would boot up and do an 'less /etc/fstab' and right down 
which partitions there are and where they are mounted, that way all you 
have to do is mount them... So I guess that means, boot with the cd, and 
do steps 7 & 8, and then run the 'passwd' command, and then reboot the 
system... You then can log into the system as root ... In Gentoo, if you 
want to be able to 'su' to root, add her user to the 'wheel' group.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml

Josh

David Reynolds wrote:

>On Tuesday 29 April 2003 08:30 pm, Eric Rossiter proclaimed:
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>>Hey everyone,
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>>Gentoo is slick, man... been slowly getting acclimated and I have a few
>>questions, if I may.
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>I've got a friend who was 'given' gentoo by her ex, but either I am not as 
>smart as I think I am, or she has been severely crippled.
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>Her ex did not give her a root password. Hence, she cannot do things like 
>change the time, emerge/update programs, or a host of other things I do 
>regularly on my system. Now he's shipped out and she has no access to him for 
>a month plus. When she types 'groups', she gets only 'users'; my account on 
>my computer on the other hand has about a dozen groups I am member of. Which 
>is to be expected?
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>>As a normal user, I can't start gdm or kdm, tells me only root wants to
>>do that.  I tried the fix suggested in the gentoo forums to no avail.
>>Any other ideas?
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>Where are these forums please? And would they be ANY help to a person just 
>starting off of Windows? I feel bad that I am about to send her back to 
>Windows, but I did suggest trying something like Mandrake or RedHat.
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>>Thanks for your time.
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>Hope I'm not intruding on your thread,
>David
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