New install 7.04, no user or password????? Help!!!

[mitchhobbs]

I just installed 7.04 using the alternate cd and was never given the option of picking a user name or password. Upon reboot, I can't get past the login screen as no username or password will work. How do you create username and password once installed? I've installed many disto's and every version of feisty up till now and have always been able to create a user/password. I installed this one overtop 7.04 beta. Can this be fixed?

please help..

thanks in advance....

Mitch

[mitchhobbs]

Re: New install 7.04, no user or password?? Help!!!

anybody...

[Fintan]

Re: New install 7.04, no user or password?? Help!!!

Can you boot with recovery? If you can make a new user K->system config->users admin mode add user or modify user if one is there. Give your new user admin rights. If that doesn't work. Hmmmm.

Check your CD if that is okay try again. Delete the beta partition at install->partition manually, make a new one, install again. If it still doesn't ask for user/password use the alt cd.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Good luck

[quixote]

Re: New install 7.04, no user or password?? Help!!!

Like the previous poster said: when it first starts booting up, choose "recovery mode". It'll come up as a console with the command prompt "root@hostname". At the command line, you can get help (if I can call it that) on adding a new user by typing

man adduser

On the other hand, if you want to live more easily and more dangerously, type

startx

at the prompt and the usual X window environment will load. Then you can use the usual System menu to add a user.

If this is your only problem, it should work. I had a problem where I got locked out of my home directories after an upgrade. There was something on a forum about some weird change to a hard drive designation, but I never did get an explanation I could understand or a solution I could use. So I wound up dumping everything and reinstalling. :P

[Fintan]

Re: New install 7.04, no user or password?? Help!!!

@quixote: Thanks for rminding me of what I oversaw to mention

[mitchhobbs]

Re: New install 7.04, no user or password?? Help!!!

thanks for the replys, I couldn't wait any longer and decided to try reinstalling it. This time I got options to choose user name and password. Don't know why I didn't before. Thanks for your replys....I'll note them in case this ever happens again.