[CentOS] CentOS 4.8

[Y. K. Liu]

Thank you very much, David, for your help.

I found out that when I installed CentOS 4.8 on VMware Fusion, I should not
have used the VMware default easy installation. When I unchecked the easy
installation, it went through the questions, including setting the root
password. So now I can set the root password during the installation.

Thank you again, anyway.
Jerry

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM, David Brian Chait <dchait at invenda.com>wrote:

> Jerry,
>
>                 The Centos install first asks for an administrative
> password and then as a part of the final configuration script, asks you to
> create a non-priv account. You do have a root acct, and you did declare a
> password. If you forgot what you might have used then boot into single user
> mode and change the root pwd.
>
>
>
> -David
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Y. K. Liu
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:43 PM
> *To:* centos at centos.org
> *Subject:* [CentOS] CentOS 4.8
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed CentOS 4.8 (not CentOS 5) on VMware Fusion using an ISO file I
> downloaded. During the installation, it asked me to enter a user name and
> its password. I tried to enter root for the user name, but it would not let
> me do that. So I had to enter a non-root user name.
>
> So I did not have the root user name and password when the installation
> completed. I only had a non-privileged user name, and could not do any sudo
> work. How can I solve this problem?
>
> I noticed that CentOS 5 (not the 4.8 I needed to install) asking to enter
> the password for root during the installation. But I need to install CentOS
> 4.8, not 5.
>
> Thank you.
> Jerry
>
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