[CentOS-virt] CentOS 4.8

Thu Feb 3 22:58:11 UTC 2011
Y. K. Liu <ykliu7 at gmail.com>

Thank you, Lucas and Aly, for your help.

I got the problem resolved now. When I installed CentOS 4.8 on VMware
Fusion, I should not have used the VMware default easy installation, which
bypassed the installation questions, including setting the root password.
After I unchecked the easy installation, I was able to set the root
password.

Thank you again, anyway.
Jerry

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Y. K. Liu <ykliu7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On a web site, I noticed that when installing CentOS 5.4 (not the 4.8 I
> installed), it asked to enter the password for the root.
>
> However, I need to install CentOS 4.8, not the 5.4. During the installation
> of 4.8, it would not let me enter root for the username. So I could not
> create root username at that time, and I only had a non-privileged regular
> username.
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Y. K. Liu <ykliu7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I could not login as root. I only had a non-privileged user name.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Lucas Timm LH <linuxhelper at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Are you trying to log as root in GDM or in a TTY?
>>>
>>> 2011/2/3 Y. K. Liu <ykliu7 at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I installed CentOS 4.8 on VMware Fusion 3.1.2. The installation was
>>>> fine. During the installation, it asked me to enter my username and
>>>> password. I tried to enter "root" as the username, but it was not allowed.
>>>> So I had to enter other name for that.
>>>>
>>>> After I logged into CentOS 4.8, I could not do sudo because I was a
>>>> regular user. Could somebody tell me how I can become root?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Jerry
>>>>
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