How do HD install without the username prompt?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: How do HD install without the username prompt?
started by: bubbacode

Posted by bubbacode on April 15 2004,01:00

If I run DSL as a LiveCD I do not get a username prompt. But after HD install I get a prompt for username and password. For what I want to do, I don't want the username prompt. Is there anyway to remove it?

Thanks :-)

Posted by roberts on April 15 2004,16:02

0.6.3 dsl-hdinstall now gives you your choice.

Posted by cujo_7 on April 15 2004,18:58

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gives you your choice.

Where do I get to choose? during the install?

Posted by roberts on April 15 2004,19:20

Yes.

Posted by Tomo on April 16 2004,17:20

Is there no way to remove it from 0.6.2 ??

Ive got it just how i want it and dont want to go through a fresh install

thanks

Posted by roberts on April 16 2004,20:59

That is why I don't do regular hard drive installs.

This distro is fast moving with lots of improvements comming down the line.
Wait till you see the next version! oh my!

But here is what you might try to do:
Boot again off the cdrom. Become root. Mount the "root" partition of where you installed onto hard drive.

First to see the differences do this:
diff /KNOPPIX/etc/inittab /mnt/hda2/etc/inittab

Now you could edit in the changes or better yet copy it over by doing this:
cp /KNOPPIX/etc/inittab /mnt/hda2/etc/.

replacing hda2 with your actual partition, then reboot.

Posted by Tomo on April 17 2004,15:04

ok i figured a way around it in 0.6.2 anyways

make a bash script called autologon

#!/bin/bash
su - root -c "startx"

chmod 755 autologon

move it to /etc/init.d/

reboot and fluxbox will auto logon as root

you can change the logon to damnsmall if you are worried about security.

-Tomo

This worked for about 5 reboots now it doesnt

Posted by Tomo on April 20 2004,08:45

Is there anyway to get the machine to log on as root ?

I know its not the done thing but any help would be great

Posted by raysr on April 20 2004,19:16

I entered the root password and the user password only to be asked for a "box login password" that I can't satisfy. WTF?

Posted by raysr on April 21 2004,00:33

Got it working.

Posted by AwPhuch on April 28 2004,15:50

raysr what did you do??

others would like to know

Brian
AwPhuch