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From: Sean McIlroy on 1 Dec 2007 19:53 hi all i just installed redhat 7.0 on my old computer and it won't let me login. when i type the password no characters appear: is that normal? anyway, is there a fix for this or should i just throw the computer away? any help would be very much appreciated. peace stm
From: ynotssor on 1 Dec 2007 21:09 In news:d8c78dba-4510-4a51-9424-a048b8a6bafe(a)s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com, Sean McIlroy <sean_mcilroy(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > anyway, is there a fix for this or should i just throw the computer > away? any help would be very much appreciated. May I have the computer, please?
From: Dan Espen on 1 Dec 2007 22:19 Sean McIlroy <sean_mcilroy(a)yahoo.com> writes: > hi all > > i just installed redhat 7.0 on my old computer and it won't let me > login. when i type the password no characters appear: is that normal? > anyway, is there a fix for this or should i just throw the computer > away? any help would be very much appreciated. No characters being echoed is normal. Redhat 7.0, not such a good idea. If you insist, boot from a CD like knoppix, mount the hard disk in read/write mode and fix /etc/passwd. You should be able to find details with Google.
From: General Schvantzkopf on 2 Dec 2007 09:52 On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:53:35 -0800, Sean McIlroy wrote: > hi all > > i just installed redhat 7.0 on my old computer and it won't let me > login. when i type the password no characters appear: is that normal? > anyway, is there a fix for this or should i just throw the computer > away? any help would be very much appreciated. > > peace > stm Don't use RH7 it's dreadfully obsolete, unsupported, and was a mess when it was new. The last release of that series, 7.3, was pretty good for it's time but that time passed a long time ago. Install Fedora 7 instead. If you are light on memory then use one of the lightweight Windows managers instead of Gnome.
From: Robert on 2 Dec 2007 11:54
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:52:01 -0600, General Schvantzkopf wrote: > On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:53:35 -0800, Sean McIlroy wrote: > >> hi all >> >> i just installed redhat 7.0 on my old computer and it won't let me >> login. when i type the password no characters appear: is that normal? >> anyway, is there a fix for this or should i just throw the computer >> away? any help would be very much appreciated. >> >> peace >> stm > > Don't use RH7 it's dreadfully obsolete, unsupported, and was a mess when > it was new. The last release of that series, 7.3, was pretty good for > it's time but that time passed a long time ago. Install Fedora 7 instead. > If you are light on memory then use one of the lightweight Windows > managers instead of Gnome. STOP!! Why them the user to install something that requires updating every ~18 months? Why use bleeding edge when you could have a RedHat system? Use CentOS! It is free and is the same as RedHat without the copy writes. http://www.centos.org -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value! Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org |