New install process

Jett Tayer jett at chikka.com
Tue Sep 6 02:52:09 UTC 2005


> .).
> 
> > The only real issue I encountered was at the end of the Minimal
> > installation.  As suggested by your docs, I answered No to all the
> > questions at the end of the basic install (after I got the `successful
> > install message') up to the choice of a root password.  There,
> > whatever may be the characters I typed, the system stayed in some
> > somewhat broken state.  Not any command work in the 4th virtual
> > terminal (no ps, no reboot, no shutdown...).  I have not found any
> > better way than (ugly) hard reset.
> 
> Please can you be more specific on what you did?  Specialy, I'd like to know
> what did you do after native-install finished to run (in VT3), and the installer
> sent you back to VT1.

Actually i ran into this and i was able to set the root password on VT1
even when it was asking me on VT3 :)
i was not able to set the root password on VT3. i have to switch to VT1
and just typed the password in "blue screen" without a prompt. strange
but it works.



> 
> Perhaps the instructions are not clear, but all you have to do at that point is
> exiting the install process and reboot.  You don't have to set the root password
> or anything untill you boot into Debian GNU/kFreeBSD natively.
> 
> > I had to fix myself /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts for the name I had
> > chosen (needed for X).
> 





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