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Re: RedHat 4.0 seems to have gone byebye

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Wed Nov 27 19:14:38 1996

Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:10:15 -0500
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From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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>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 :)

The default user is as any unix system, root... try it from the console.

Darron

>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


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