help with login please

help with login please

[Gregory Nowak]

                                                                      Hello
Everyone,

I'm new to this list and to linux. I unzipped the entire zipspeak zip file
onto a zipdisk in an IDE zipdrive    . I boot my system from a disk with
win98 system files on it and run linux.bat from there. Everything works fine
until I get to the "(none) login:" line. I type "root" and hit enter. Linux
pauses for a second or 2 and the zipdisk spins. Then it comes back with the
welcome message which ends with the same login line. Am I doing something
wrong? What do I do to login? I'm using the doubletalk pc kernel. Also, I
hear that there is a command key that will help one use linux if one knows
DOS. Where do I obtain a copy of this command key? Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.
Greg Nowak

Re: help with login please

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Someone on blinux-newbie had this problem.  You might try asking
there.  Send a message to blinux-newbie-request@braille.uwo.ca

Geoff.


-- 
Geoff Shang <gshang10@scu.edu.au>
ICQ number 43634701

RE: help with login please

[Matthew Janusauskas]

Hi Greg,

I had the same problem and found that a run of scandisk on the drive under
windows caused the problem.  You must delete the /linux directory and
re-install it from the zip file.  You will then be able to log in as root.

-Matt



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Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 12:09
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Subject: help with login please


                                                                      Hello
Everyone,

I'm new to this list and to linux. I unzipped the entire zipspeak zip file
onto a zipdisk in an IDE zipdrive    . I boot my system from a disk with
win98 system files on it and run linux.bat from there. Everything works fine
until I get to the "(none) login:" line. I type "root" and hit enter. Linux
pauses for a second or 2 and the zipdisk spins. Then it comes back with the
welcome message which ends with the same login line. Am I doing something
wrong? What do I do to login? I'm using the doubletalk pc kernel. Also, I
hear that there is a command key that will help one use linux if one knows
DOS. Where do I obtain a copy of this command key? Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.
Greg Nowak




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