on 14:46 Thu 03 Feb, Y. K. Liu (ykliu7 at gmail.com) wrote: > > 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 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. Yep. VMWare's "easy" install does that. Pick the "expert mode" and you'll get full prompts. If you're installing multiple systems, it's very helpful to configure a kickstart server. -- Dr. Ed Morbius Chief Scientist Krell Power Systems Unlimited