so you did try to install - what?
usually during the installation the "default" user name and password should be entered, you can choose what you want. But it may depend on the distro you installed - or you are trying to install. |
If this is a brand new install, you are in fact being asked to specify the username and passwd you want to be created :)
It is NOT asking you to guess an existing user/oasswd ;) |
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It's not asking for you to log in, but you need to supply the info initially so you can use it to access the system after installation. Mint doesn't use a root and user password, only the user password needs registration. :) Privilege elevation to root status in Mint (and Ubuntu for that matter) is by using the sudo command. I may well have got what you're telling us completely wrong but I can't think where else you'd be asked for that information during an install. :scratch: Play Bonny! :hattip: |
-maybe try-: replacing that whole "ro quiet splash single" with: rw init=/bin/sh
(the whole 'concept' of -WHICH name/pwd WHERE?- can get really confusing!) |
I 'voted' for #19. Even a tablet like iPad asks you to pick a username, when first used. Good luck. You are lucky to have a computer that can run even a tiny Linux! Study hard and you will get it working. And have what is called "thick skin", in case a Guru gets frustrated from watching you struggle with a totally NEW to you concept, that they mastered thousands or millions of commands ago!
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When you installed Mint you had a screen where you chose a username and password- just enter whatever that might be.
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