iB::Topic::How do HD install without the username prompt?

	Damn Small Linux :: Damn Small Linux Board The DSL Forums

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Damn Small Linux Board » Damn Small Linux » HD Install » How do HD install without the username prompt?

		Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
		Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic

Pages: (3) </ 1 [2] 3 >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Topic: How do HD install without the username prompt?, removing the username (login) prompt

< Next Oldest | Next Newest >

roberts

Group: Members
Posts: 4983
Joined: Oct. 2003

Posted: 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.

Tomo

Group: Members
Posts: 35
Joined: Mar. 2004

Posted: 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