F10 and Gnome - not root login

[Aldo Foot]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> 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
>
> FWIW, this is NOT an isolated case.  I've installed F10 twice on one box now,
> and both installs did that to me.  Not allowed a root login, but it never
> asked for a user to be setup.  So I installed again, and again it failed to
> ask for a user to be setup.  I didn't try a 3rd time on that box, plugging in
> a Mint Linux dvd instead, but that release everybody was having orgasms over
> wasn't anywhere near ready for prime time.
>
> That box now has ubuntu-8.04 LTS on it, but it may wind up with 6.06 LTS
> simply because the newer X has 1 second or more in lags the screen update,
> and for emc, that is very much _not_ a tolerable thing.

I burned a dvd this morning and used it to install F10. The install
went fine and this
time the problem went away completely. Firstboot ran as expected. I created a
regular user account, logged in, ran updates, etc...

One has to wonder, what are the odds that two different people had
some weird dvd.
As a side note: I had created the "problem" dvd I used previously on
12/04/08 ( I dated it),
and that was a few days after the mainstream release on late November.

~af