A few quick newbie questions...

[jery_wang]

Using a 200GIG WD harddrive and VIA EPIA M10000 mini-ITX motherboard with 512 megs of
RAM....

#1 - I do the install, no problems as far as I can tell, then it has to do a reboot.  It
gets to where it is then asking for a "username" in the middle of the screen.  I
don't have a username.  At some point during the install it forces me to put in an
admin name or something, but that user/pass doesn't work.  Is there a way during the
install to tell it "hey, no freaking user/pass on this computer"?

#2 - Want to do a dual boot between XP and Linux.  Do I partition the harddrive first,
then install XP, then install Linux?

This is all new ground to me (Linux and dual booting). While I'm not a computer dunce,
these two "issues" has me stumped.  Please use small words and pretty pictures.

Many thanks!

Pencilneck  blah blah blah 


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[thomas cameron]

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From: "Pencilneck" <no-reply-gw(a)fcp.homelinux.org&gt;
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:22 PM
Subject: A few quick newbie questions...


>  Using a 200GIG WD harddrive and VIA EPIA M10000 mini-ITX motherboard
> with 
>  512 megs of RAM....
>
>  #1 - I do the install, no problems as far as I can tell, then it has to do 
>  a reboot.  It gets to where it is then asking for a "username" in the 
>  middle of the screen.  I don't have a username.  At some point during the 
>  install it forces me to put in an admin name or something, but that 
>  user/pass doesn't work.  Is there a way during the install to tell it 
>  "hey, no freaking user/pass on this computer"? 
Try the user name root, and whatever password you put in when you were 
prompted during installation.

>  #2 - Want to do a dual boot between XP and Linux.  Do I partition the
>
>  harddrive first, then install XP, then install Linux? 
That is the recommended method.

>  This is all new ground to me (Linux and dual booting). While I'm
> not a 
>  computer dunce, these two "issues" has me stumped.  Please use small words 
>  and pretty pictures.
>  
You should really peruse the docs at 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/, especially the Step By Step 
guide.

Thomas

[jery_wang]

You need to simply pick a username that you want
to use, and choose a password for it. Linux doesn't
support completely lacking a username. So as a minimum,
you will have the "root" user (that's the administrative
password you put in at the beginning) and one "normal"
user, which you will use for your day-to-day work.

I think that the problems with dual booting XP were fixed, 
so the solution you give of partitioning, then installing 
XP, then installing Fedora should work. You can leave the 
Fedora space as unpartitioned space on the hard disk.

Mark


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