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Re: RedHat 4.0 seems to have gone byebye

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Anderson)
Wed Nov 27 19:09:23 1996

Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:23:52 -0500
From: Paul Anderson <andersop@agapesystems.com>
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Porcu wrote:
> 
> Hi, I have a question for you? :)
> 
> I installed Linux (Redhat) and cannot even log in because I don't know
> the username! I know the password though. But I don't recalled being
> prompt to enter a username in the installation.
> 
> I would appreciate if you can help me out :)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:35:40 +0000, in linux.redhat.misc you wrote:
> 
> >I'll try to get back on here with some more info, but this morning
> >when I booted up Linux on my box at home it said maximum number of
> >mounts reached and ran fsck... no problem... Or so I thought...
> >Fsck proceeded to spew some nasty error messages about inaccessible
> >spots on my hard drive and dropped me into a shell to run fsck
> >manually.
> >so I did and it was talking about unrecoverable errors in certain
> >places on my hard drive..  now X doesn't work anymore...  is my hard
> >drive actually dying or could I solve this with a reformat and
> >reinstall?
> >
> >frsutrated and more than slightly clueless,
> >Ed Smith
> >edsmith@one.net
> >
How about root?

Paul Anderson


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