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01-01-2005, 01:10 AM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
Distribution: Arch w/ XFCE
Posts: 834
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Ubuntu ... *sigh*
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.
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01-01-2005, 01:25 AM
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: ~/.au
Distribution: Mepis Kanotix SUSE
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yes thats how ubuntu is as to how to change it who cares your changing distros
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01-01-2005, 01:34 AM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
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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 ...
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01-01-2005, 07:13 AM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Bellevue, WA
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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!!
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01-01-2005, 07:33 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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By default, Ubuntu doesn't use the root account. To do anything, you simply use [wiki]sudo[/wiki]
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01-01-2005, 07:36 AM
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I'm not running Ubuntu anymore, but sudo asked for a root password too :-/
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01-01-2005, 07:43 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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Sudo asks for your password, not root's.
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01-01-2005, 07:55 AM
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Location: Bellevue, WA
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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 ...
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01-01-2005, 01:15 PM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Spain
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