My install of Fedora 18 Alpha

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 01:10 -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:

> On first (working) boot the little wizard came up, and I decided to see
> if I could really shoot myself in the foot, by skipping configuring a
> user, and having a disabled root account. Indeed I could, this may or
> may not be something that is worth fixing/checking up on. Also NTP
> configuration wouldn't work, claiming it couldn't write to the
> appropriate file.

This whole area will get reinforced for Beta / Final. What we have now
is just what we figured was a minimum baseline: for a graphical install
it'll work if you follow the defaults (don't set a root password, create
a user account which is an admin), for a non-graphical install, you have
to create a root password during install. (For a while there was *no*
root password spoke in anaconda, and firstboot didn't default to
creating an admin user; the 'fixes' for Alpha were to add the optional
root PW spoke, and to make firstboot default to creating an admin user).

The NTP bug is known, I believe.

> So a reboot into rescue mode was necessary to actually add a user
> account and set the password for root just in case. Which is essentially
> my way of saying rescue mode is very important, I noticed discussion at
> one point of not having it included in the alpha, I reckon that would
> have been a bad thing.

Well, bear in mind you can use pretty much any live image for rescue
purposes. When I installed a system in this state I fixed it up from an
F17 live image, not rescue mode.
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