[LBo] Password prompt

[Lou Roux]

Hi again,

Well I've re-installed the entire package again and very carefully 
followed the instructions. All goes well and then I get a screen that says:

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Kernel 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 on an i686

Localhost login:


At this point I don't know what to enter as I wasn't prompted for a host 
name during installation. If I enter anything the next prompt says:  
Password:

I'm totally lost at this point as I wasn't prompted for a localhost name 
or password during the installation process and of course I can't go any 
further with the login process.

Can somebody please tell me where I've gone astray.  ;-)

Thanks again,

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
>