Re: Installing Morphix/Accessing Floppy

O.k.  Here's the real problem with the floppy drive access.  The drive 
actually wasn't conected properly - don't know how that wire came 
loose!  Anyway, I can now only access the floppy by using:
mount /devfd0 /mnt/floppy (as root)

The system claims that /mnt/auto/floppy doesn't exist.  Can I attach the 
fstab file for you to look at?

Alex de Landgraaf wrote:

>>My bad - hit reply w/out realizing how it was addressed.  Thanks for 
>>your patience.
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>no problem.
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>>O.k.  I got Morhix-Gnome on the hard disk, but the useradd seems to be 
>>failing at install time.  When I reboot, I get to the login screen, and 
>>cannot login as either root or my regular userid.  I know the passwords 
>>are correct.  I noticed that after the installation, when I logout of 
>>the CD-based Morphix, it shows some error messages to the effect of 
>>"useradd command not found".
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>Ouch. By the looks of it the regular user wasn't added (and possibly the
>root users password wasn't enabled). Was the partition large enough for
>the install? You could try setting the password by hitting shift at the
>lilo prompt and entering 'linux init=/bin/sh'. This should boot and give
>you a console right away with which would allow you to set the password
>manually... although I do find this a very strange issue you're having.
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>>I don't see anything on the Wiki about this.  Should I be doing 
>>something after the installation completes  - or is there anything I can 
>>do to overcome this issue?
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>the complete install log (morphixinstaller -d or the terminal output)
>might give more clues. I'm not sure what's happening, you might want to
>try a forum search if others have had similar issues.
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>cheers,
>Alex
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