Hi,<br>
Thanks a lot Jason. Yeah, using 800x600 did help. I didn't like
the solution though since a noob would find it unfriendly. Since the CD
was a little old, I guessed a recent version may have fixed the problem
and it turned out to be true. Now, he can monkey with it until he feel
ready to install it on hard disk.<br>
Paul has a good point though. Ubantu has disabled way too
many useful facilities in the name of being user friendly and I am
getting cranky when I come across these barriers. In fact, I am
no longer as impressed with Ubantu as sometimes back, but this could be
related to the fact I have made Redhat my staple food recently.<br><br>
Thanks<br>
William<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 27/02/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Shein</b> <<a href="mailto:jason-xgs8i/e9EeWTtA8H5PvdGCwD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">jason-xgs8i/e9EeWTtA8H5PvdGCwD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Monday 27 February 2006 12:09, Paul Sutton wrote:<br>> AFAIK there is not root password by default in ubbuntu , not sure what<br>> the fix is though, an su option perhaps, not sure,<br><br>Start a console<br>Enter the following:
<br><br>#sudo su<br>#passwd<br>Enter the new root password. Logout<br>#exit or CTRL+D<br><br>All done<br><br>Now you can gain root access by typing su at the prompt.<br><br>Use it wisely.<br><br>--<br>Jason Shein<br>Director of Networking, Operations and Systems
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