Login after HD install
Forum: HD Install
Topic: Login after HD install
started by: hamstera
Posted by hamstera on Nov. 09 2006,11:37
Hi everybody!I've just HD installed dsl-3.1RC3 on a 486DX4, 16MB RAM, 850 MB HDD (yeah, the only distro that can do this
). Everything went smooth, I rebooted, left it unattended (you can imagine how long it may take to boot) and I was infront a screen asking me to LOGIN...Could you please tell me what the default login/ passwords are as I have not provided any during installation.
Thanks a mil!
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 09 2006,13:57
The default admin account is 'root'The default user account is 'dsl'
There are no passwords.
Posted by hamstera on Nov. 09 2006,14:22
THANKS !!! Greatly appreciated. Will try it once I'm home.Cheers!
Posted by hamstera on Nov. 10 2006,09:28
Hi again!That's waht happened: I booted the PC with the installed DSL on HDD and it came up to Login moment. When I enter DSL / dsl or root it asks for a passoword and a blank password is not accepted. I tried using dsl-dsl as login-password, root-root, but it doesn't work.
So I reinstalled
I kept an eye on the installation process and there was a specific moment that bothers be. When it was almost comleted I saw a few lines saying something like "root password was successfully changed" and I'm pretty sure I wasn't asked for that.
Can anyone shed some light on a possible resolution, please? Would it be a good idea to Live cd boot and delete /etc/shadow?
P.S. Does DSL support serial mouse?
Thanks!
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 10 2006,15:19
Hm, no idea... I've only really done frugal installations. Perhaps you have to change your passwords on the live session before you install? I guess you are using the oldstyle hd-install scripts from the menu?Don't think deleting that file will help you if blank passwords aren't accepted - you could copy a new /etc/shadow over though. You could also just disable the login.
And serial mice are supported.
Posted by Ramik on Nov. 10 2006,20:34
If you want to cut down on your boot time you can do a lot, this is what my 32mb P75 100mhz does from grub:| Code Sample |
# Damn Small Linux on hdd1 title DSL on hdd1 root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hdd1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi nodhcp nopcmcia nomce nofirewire noagp makeactive boot |
*The nodhcp is because I disabled the dhcp server on my router years ago and I like it !
*The nopcmcia is because I'm not useing a laptop so I don't have PCmcia.
*The noscsi is because I have no scsi drives, on common IDEs.
*The noacpi & noapm is because I don't remote connect to that machine so I have no need to re-\+boot it from afar, also the "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface" tends to be buggy even if you bother with updating your bios, cause back in those days no used to bother with that kind of stuff... PowerOff :-)
* nomce is because I have no use for Machine Check Exception, hopefully nothing will go wrong :-)
* nofirewire what firewire ? :-)
* noagp what agp ? :-)
** noapic is a risk, my system does well without the "Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controllers" because its a Pentium class, but i'm not doing it, In your case I would have omitted this because that old PIC chip on your board might be buggy.
** I heard of nousb but that sounds bugy (so if the module wont be loaded, wont the scripts halt the machine ?).
** Their is no nodma cause I like having a fast HD, if your system only supports dma33 (which this is probably the case), you might as well use nodma...
** Their is no frugal because this is an HD install...
I Have my X up and running in under 20sec.
Have Fun Testing !
Edits: correction and updates (I'm not on my DSL machine).
Posted by hamstera on Nov. 11 2006,00:34
Hi again,Here's what the solution was... When booting dsl-3.1RC3 and choosing Install, I pressed 0 at the install menu. This brings you to the console. Then I entered new password for root (passwd). After that, I issued "dslinstall" and the installation menu appeared again. Chose 3. This time, at install completion, it asked me for dsl an droot password verification (which did not happen initially). So it booted :blush:
Now I gotta make this serial mouse work
P.S. Rule 1: Whenever you try to establish a network, first make sure your NICs work. Saves time. A lot.
Thanks all of you!
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 11 2006,05:42
For serial mice: run xsetup.sh to configure.