Run level 3 on Live CD

[Paul Sutton]

I would go for a differetn distro, I have installed ubuntu at the rugby 
club, and ran into the same issue regarding root,  try kanotix, that 
works really well for me anway if I was to introduce a new user to 
Linux,  one of the first things I want to stress is the importance of 
NOT RUNNING AS ROOT,  giving a new user a pseudo root, type system would 
seem to go against this and set a bad presidence for later ( bad habits 
ARE hard to break),  yes it's a pain but many a lesson is learnt by 
running as root and doing something which will result in the need for a 
complete reinstall and loss of data, (norman in doze yes, but Linux is 
meant to avoid these problems) .  I think the root nature of Linspire is 
one of the biggest critisisms of that distro,


AFAIK there is not root password by default in ubbuntu ,  not sure what 
the fix is though,  an su option perhaps, not sure, 



Kihara Muriithi wrote:

> Hi,
>  Yesterday, I wanted to introduce a friend to Linux. Of course the 
> first thing one does it run a Live CD on the party in question PC. 
> That's when I landed in problem.
>  The computer boots alright, but X is all fuzzy. I could make icons 
> here and there, but I would be lying to say the computer was usable. 
> Oh, and there was five instances of every object. i.e. Five mice 
> pointers, five firefox icons etc. I forgot to pick the hardware 
> profile of the computer, but that can be fixed tomorrow.
>  My first reaction was, oh, easily, drop to level 3 and try starting X 
> manually. Kill it a minute later and look at the log. After rebooting 
> Ubantu, it dawned to me grub don't understand "e", "b" and "a" 
> commands. There is a silly diagnostic option, but it don't drop me on 
> a shell. Also, I can't get to the PC through the network as I don't 
> have a root password. How do you fix such an inflexible set up?
>
> Thanks in advance
> William



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