Ditto. :-(
I picked up a copy of PC Answers myself today, purely for the copy of Mandrake (didn't fancy downloading it at 128kbit).
In short, they seem to have messed up the install/packages in some way.. haven't looked properly yet, but the end result doesn't work. According to some newsgroup postings, it isn't just the login that's messed up; X has problems as well, so it's probably not worth persevering.
Bit of a waste of a fiver really.
Gareth
John Woodard wrote:
I just installed Mandrake 6.1 off the latest PC Answers coverdisk. All went well, couldn't tell the difference between that and RH6.0's installer (apart from the total lack of X server setup, expect you're meant to do that after you have a working console).
When I get to the standard logon prompt I input root and enter as usual but it doesn't give me a password prompt just another logon prompt, hence I can't get into the system. This is also the case with a normal user and when I try booting from a floppy instead of the hdd (lilo is on the mbr). I can get into a bash prompt by using lilo single but that still gets me nowhere, I tried changing the root password and running lilo again from there.
Any ideas? Could the good folks at PC Answers have slipped us a lemon I wonder?
Cheers, BJ
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