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Autor: Steve Litt
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Assumpte: Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:25:06 -0700
Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@???> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:01:11AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> > The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install
> > xorg and fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no
> > desktop environment. At present I get a log in prompt and can log
> > in as user in console, but for some reason root log in not working.
> > I suppose that when I provided a password I mistyped.
>
> At the grub menu, edit the kernel commandline to change
> "root=... ro ..." to "root=... rw ... init=/bin/bash"
>
> Then run "passwd", sync a couple times, and reboot.
>
> HTH,
> Isaac Dunham


Why change ro to rw?

SteveT

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