Posted by Frank Hale on 2001-01-24
> Hmm, could be a buggy copy or a bad installation. You know what, now > that I think about it, I had something like this happen about 7/8 > months ago, I just reinstalled it and all went fine. The other one > was in the /etc/securetty file that controls root logins from the > console. Of course, there was another time that I entered in the > root password, forgot what I entered and wham, the machine was > completely useless and needed a re-install. =) > I just booted it and did alt-f2 when it came up with the root password screen, I logged in as root, it didn't ask me for a password, I issued the command passwd and set one. Now my problem is solved but in a completely ass backward way. I am going to try to reinstall to see if I fudged something up along the way. Damn I am too used to RedHat holding my hand through the whole installation process. I gotta try to unbrainwash myself and get RedHat out of my memories......... > Now with all that said above. I had a 1.0GB drive for Swap, worked fine > and great. Now, the CD-ROM earlier today (after removing the HD's and > playing with Windows 2000 Professional on a 4.3GB drive) I decided to > erase Windows 2000 Professional, format it as a Linux Swap drive and > have 5.3GB of swap space. And I still can not get the CD-ROM to work > with or without that 4.3GB being installed before or after it was > installed. I've never seen any thing like this before, and I've done > did gotten more than 2GB of swap before, but I can't remember. I do > believe I had multiple 1GB sections (/dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, /dev/hdc3) > and so on. Now, it's hdc1 and hdb1 Holy cow, you had a 1 gig swap partition? The swap partition should be around 2 times the amount of RAM you have, for instance if you have 64 then make a 128 meg swap partition. Maybe a little bigger just incase. You made a 5.3 gig swap partition? Ouch!! What types of CDs are you trying to look at? How where they recorded? Are they standard ISO-9660? Joliet? Is it a CD-RW? I've had my share of CD problems in the past maybe I can help.
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