f8t3 Live on ibm a20m: how do I login?
sean darcy
seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 12:42:57 UTC 2007
Thomas Springer wrote:
> sean darcy:
>> Trying to run live cd on something, I've tried to run it on an ibm a20m
>> notebook ( 2000 vintage, pentium 3 700mz ).
>>
>> The gdm throws up the login screen asking for the user name, and says
>> user fedora will login in 60 seconds.
>>
>> The seconds counter decreases, then goes negative - but no login.
>
> ;-). I've not seen this.
>
>> Is there some special login? I've tried root.
>>
>> sean
>>
>
>
> Just enter fedora as username and hit <enter> as mentioned in the
> release notes:
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Live.html#sn-Usage-Information
>
I did that. Also tried root.
Then I edited the grub login to init 3. I logged in at the command line
as fedora ( root also works ).
It died at startx. It showed creating three xauth, then just hung.
FWIW, knoppix works fine.
I'd file a bug, but under what?
sean
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