[LBo] Password prompt

[Lou Roux]

Thanks to all those who replied. Looks like I'll re-format the drive and 
do another install being very careful with each step.

Thanks again and I'm sure I'll have more questions as I learn this thing.

Lou



Anita Lewis wrote:
> Lou Roux wrote:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm a very newbie at linux. I'm attempting to run Fedora 8 for the first 
>> time and it seems to load fine up to a point where it asks for a user 
>> name and password. When I installed the program at one point it asked me 
>> to choose a password which I did but never asked for a user name, now 
>> when I boot up it asks for a user name and password. At this point I'm 
>> dead in the water and can't go any farther.
>>
>> Could someone please give me some help on how to boot up. The FAQ 
>> mentions a GRUB password but being new here I have no idea what that is 
>> or where to find one.
>>     
>
> As the other poster indicated, your password was for root.  Normally 
> installers ask what you want for a user, too, but this seems to have 
> missed it.
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/
>
> Check out the section called First Boot.  17.5 is about making a user, 
> but I'd read that whole section since there is a lot that is important 
> in it.
>
> It probably tells you that you need to put root for the username and 
> whatever password you gave for the password to login and do this section
>
> Anita
>