Re: [gentoo-user] How to become root on 2006.0

[frank]

Hi.

... and thanks for the quick reply. A lot has changed with the Gentoo
installation since the last time I've installed it ... and it looks
great ;)

I'm not so sure about the formatting question with the installer. There
is a possibility to not partition the disk but there is no option to not
format the root partition. Is there a way to do so? ... or will an older
version of the installation handbook work (installing from the text
console without formatting the disks)?

Regards
Frank


On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 13:19 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 8/1/06, frank <sdoma@××××××××.cz> wrote:
> > Is there a way to do this with 2006.0? There was a way with older Gentoo
> > versions, with Slack, with LFS ...
>
> Not sure what question you are asking here...do you just need to know
> how to login as root when staring at the Gnome desktop of the liveCD?
> If so, Ctrl+Alt+F1 will give you a root console shell, where you can
> change the root password to something not random.  Then you can switch
> back to X if you like and do an "su - root" from a terminal window to
> get root access there.  Or you can just continue to work on the
> console.
>
> -Richard

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