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Herbert Graf <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:45:41 -0500
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>     I want to thank everyone who wrote and told me how to load
> Linux Redhat
> 5.1 on my computer. I finally decided to load it all by it's lonesome, to
> reduce all the problems I was having. I chose to load everything
> on the CD.
> It went slick. It took over an hour to put everything on the hard drive,
> asked a lot of questions and then wanted to reboot. Great I was getting
> somewhere. I rebooted and it asked for login, then password. I
> was the only
> one accessing the computer so I didn't set a password in except when it
> asked me to type a password during the load, I put my name twice. I tried
> that. Didn't work. I tried the generic "Administrator" and
> "password", exact
> case and still nothing. Did I miss something during my setup?

        Did you try "root" without any password, that is the default with
slackware. TTYL

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