Beryl

[grey_1]

I'll give it a go. I'm back in the ubuntu "black screen hell" atm. Making me crazy. I'll get back in a bit.

[DiscipleDOC]

I'll give it a go. I'm back in the ubuntu "black screen hell" atm. Making me crazy. I'll get back in a bit.
I was like that as well, and then I seen that my fstab had an unusable UUID in area where my boot partition should be.

You may want to check that next time.

[grey_1]

Thanks, if I run into it with debian I'll look for that first. Installing it now. I like this netinst btw.

Edit: no problem with debian yet, other than it's stubborn refusal to let me sudo ANYTHING from the terminal. Grrr.

[grey_1]

Definite learning curve with debian. I have to say I don't understand the mentality that designs an OS which hides root and sudo privileges from the person who installs and sets up the OS.

I need to add my user name to /etc/sudoers so I can at least do basic admin tasks like installing my gfx drivers, but visudo is out as I have no root privileges in a terminal. And whose password is entered under root in group?

Not caring for this at all.

[evilghost]

Definite learning curve with debian. I have to say I don't understand the mentality that designs an OS which hides root and sudo privileges from the person who installs and sets up the OS.

I need to add my user name to /etc/sudoers so I can at least do basic admin tasks like installing my gfx drivers, but visudo is out as I have no root privileges in a terminal. And whose password is entered under root in group?

Not caring for this at all.

Run "su" instead of "sudo" then edit your sudoers, when prompted for a passwd use the root pwd.

[grey_1]

Run "su" instead of "sudo" then edit your sudoers, when prompted for a passwd use the root pwd.
I'll do this soon as I'm home from work today. Thanks eg.

[evilghost]

No problem, I guess there's two ways to make an assumption about a setup.

1) Assume the local user you're adding is a admin/sudoer
2) Assume nothing.

Ubuntu does #1, Debian does #2. Which one is better? Who knows, but I like no assumptions.

[grey_1]

No problem, I guess there's two ways to make an assumption about a setup.

1) Assume the local user you're adding is a admin/sudoer
2) Assume nothing.

Ubuntu does #1, Debian does #2. Which one is better? Who knows, but I like no assumptions.
That POV does change things a bit. :D

[DiscipleDOC]

No problem, I guess there's two ways to make an assumption about a setup.

1) Assume the local user you're adding is a admin/sudoer
2) Assume nothing.

Ubuntu does #1, Debian does #2. Which one is better? Who knows, but I like no assumptions.
Mandriva did # 2 also...but in the installation, you were able to make a superuser.

[evilghost]

DiscipleDoc, now that you're a Linux user I can actually have lunch with you again. :)

[DiscipleDOC]

DiscipleDoc, now that you're a Linux user I can actually have lunch with you again. :)
:wonder:

I've been a linux user...I just didn't have time to really get back into it....I'm starting to get the hang of it again...