booting up help

[x3r0n]

ok i just did a clean install of redhat, and during the install it asked for a admin pass, so i gave it... then it told me to make accounts, but i didnt... so all i entered was the admin pass... ok so now its all done, and i boot up my comp. it loads everythjing, says OK in green for all the checks, and then it says

(computername)-B Login:

ok so i try the password but nothing happens... WTF! god all i wanna do is start up linux but i cant do this without a login and password? how do i get rid of this?

[slapNUT]

At LILO boot prompt type linux single
After booting edit /etc/passwd and remove the x from line with root in it. Save that then reboot and you can reset the password with passwd command.

[scanez]

Hmmm...seems to me you just have to login in as root. At that prompt type

root

and THEN it will ask for a password, the one you chose during installation. Once you are loged in as root, you probably want to create a user for yourself. Look at

man useradd or man adduser

Cheers
SC

[slapNUT]

heh
I didn't notice that. Putting the password in for the user.

Yeah. I retract my earlier post... follow scanez advice.

[x3r0n]

alright it worked, now it just says something about email, but where is linux?!?!?! from screenshots it looks like windows, so where is it, how do i start it.

[slapNUT]

Did you create a user. If so then type
startx
And you will have a GUI like windows depending on what you installed for your desktop or window/manager. But don't startx as root, it can be hazzardous to your files.