Installing Fedora 12

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Monday 26 April 2010 18:12:54 Nathan Woodruff wrote:
> 
> Pressing Alt f2 does absolutely nothing.

That should be Ctrl-Alt-F2.

That said, by default after the Fedora installation is complete and the system 
is rebooted, it offers a welcome screen where you should setup at least one 
regular user account, time&date, etc. You should do that and log in as a 
regular user. If at any time during regular work the system needs root 
password, you will be asked to provide it, and you will never actually need to 
log into X as root. Logging as root is generally considered a Bad Idea, and 
should be avoided unless you really know what you are doing.

The general rule of thumb: if you know what you are doing and still want to 
log into X as root, you are probably expert enough to find information on how 
to enable that and modify the system yourself. If you are not expert enough to 
do that, the wise advice is just don't even try to do it, you are likely to 
screw something up.

HTH, :-)
Marko