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Hi,
I installed slackware 9 full installation and it completed successfully. When I try to boot slackware 9 it asks me for my username. In the installation it never prompted me to create a user, so I assume i should enter 'root' for now. it then asks for the password, so i enter my root password, and then it says invalid login or something to that effect (i dont remember the exact words). so, i tried guest as te username and a blank password. that didnt work either. i then tried guest as the username and guest as te password and that didnt work either. so, although this may sound stupid, how do i login?
You know, I just had this exact same problem with Slackware 9. I've done plenty of installs before and it has never come up until now. I was just about to reinstall but thought I would see if anyone else had the problem. It's not the caps lock either!
Any thoughts?
How could I setup a user after I rebooted without actually being inside the install, say off a bootdisk set or off the cd..
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