F10 and Gnome - not root login

Aldo Foot lunixer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 17:08:44 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:29 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Steve Searle <steve at stevesearle.com> wrote:
>> > Around 12:18am on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (UK time), Aldo Foot scrawled:
>> >
>> >> But now, seriously, how I'm I supposed to log in at the desktop when I was not
>> >> offered the chance to create a regular user account during the installation?
>> >
>> > Firstboot will ask you to set up a user account.  Did you bypass this?
>> >
>> > Steve
>>
>> I never saw the firstboot routine.
>> I actually did the install *twice* thinking that I had missed that, but no.
>> That's why I'm puzzled.
>>
>> ~af
>
> Just to be clear. After the installation is complete you reboot. During
> that reboot you are asked to setup a user account. Did that not happen
> to you.

Nope. It never did, hence the puzzle.
I'm burning a new DVD right now.

~af




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