<div>On 4/9/07, Leslie Katz <<a href="mailto:lesliek@ozemail.com.au">lesliek@ozemail.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks very much for your reply Tim. I thought I could add /sbin to root's path permanently by editing root's .bash_profile file, but, although the file took the change, that didn't lead to /sbin showing up in root's path on a reboot. So I added /sbin to root's path temporarily before running the livecd-creator again.</blockquote><div> if you want to add /sbin to root's path permanently, you need to add it to root's .bashrc, not .bash_profile. that'll take care of it so /sbin is there after a reboot. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> When I booted from it, all worked up to the stage where I was asked to log in. I knew nothing of any username or password, so I just pressed Enter. However, that didn't work.</blockquote><div> you couldn't log in because the livecd-creator command doesn't set a root password and doesn't create a normal user. you'll have to do that yourself. i think i saw that in the docs somewhere. </div> hope that helps, tim <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Tim Boring wrote: > try setting up root's path like so: > > PATH=/sbin:$PATH > > that should fix it. i encountered the same problem and it was because > root's path didn't include '/sbin'...not sure why, but that's a > different issue. > -- Visit <a href="http://stumblng.tumblr.com">http://stumblng.tumblr.com</a> An Australian lawyers' tumblelog about things you might otherwise have missed </blockquote></div>