Ubuntu ... *sigh*

orange400 · 01-01-2005, 12:10 AM

So I just installed Ubuntu over RH9 to try it (didn't really want ot use RH9 anyway) and it is giving me problems. First off, it didn't ask me to set a root password during the install, so when I need to get into root to fix these problems, I can't. wtf? Does anybody know what happened here? Is ther ea default root password in Ubuntu?

The other problem is that Windows won't boot now. My partition table looks like this:

hda
Windows, NTFS
ext3 (boot)
XFS (Ubuntu)
Swap

hdb
NTFS, Storage

I know having the bott partition in the middle of the drive is a little funky, but it works. Yeah, when I try to start Windows, it says (from what I remember) unrecognized file system, chainloader, blah blah, the usual (except for the error), then it hangs. I might be able to fix this myself if I could just get the root password.

Oh, and I don't care what happens to my linux data. If you guys want me to screw it up or mess with it, that's ok. I'm gonna install SuSE next.

junme · 01-01-2005, 12:25 AM

yes thats how ubuntu is as to how to change it who cares your changing distros

orange400 · 01-01-2005, 12:34 AM

Yeah I know, but I would like to get back into Windows to prepare for another distro install ... oh well. I think I'm just gonna write to some floppies, boot from them, and install SuSE via FTP ...

orange400 · 01-01-2005, 06:13 AM

Holy CRAP! SuSE is unreal!! Anything I ever wanted to get working in it was just a few clicks away with a config to do! I'm running a two-monitor extended desktop right now! YEAH! I'm not even sure if windows is working right now, I've been in SuSE for almost two hours. I am impressed!!

XavierP · 01-01-2005, 06:33 AM

By default, Ubuntu doesn't use the root account. To do anything, you simply use [wiki]sudo[/wiki]

orange400 · 01-01-2005, 06:36 AM

I'm not running Ubuntu anymore, but sudo asked for a root password too :-/

XavierP · 01-01-2005, 06:43 AM

Sudo asks for your password, not root's.

orange400 · 01-01-2005, 06:55 AM

Oh really? That's interesting, cause I was already logged in and stuff ... huh. I think I might have tried it, but only when trying to su root.

How on earth can linux be held together wirhout root?? That's too stange ...

spaniard · 01-01-2005, 12:15 PM

You can find how to enable the root password at http://ubuntuguide.org/#setchangeenablerootpassword