Fedora Core Help...

[Pva_Glue]

what is this and How do you use it?

I just inherited 2nd computer form friend going overseas, and gave machine with FEDORA core in it. no pass word or user name. so I can get in it

what do I do with it?

about to wipe machine and put Windaz...

[AlphA]

Fedora core is awesome " do you know what version?" regardless without the PW id just wipe it and do a clean install of windows.

- Adam

[Pva_Glue]

Fedora 2.4 something?? I duunoo...

What is it? Fedora.

Machine has 80GB HD and its such waste in the machine I dotn have password or username to get into the system.

so reinstall windaz eh?

[AlphA]

Fedora Core is a Linux Operating System, Yeah Id reinstall windows on it, even if you got the PW Linux doesnt run your Win32 Applications so you couldnt use it for any windows software*

* Emulators do exist but dont run everthing

[Pva_Glue]

Thanks Adam

ok I have logged in but I cant do anything....

how do I connect up between window computer and Fedora (fedora 2)?

can anyone help?

thanks

[Pva_Glue]

hahahhahahahaha I have made Newbie mistake...posting in wrong section. lol

Can Moderator move this thread into Wasteland please.

Thank you.

[ferni]

to put it on the network, plug in a network cable, get to a terminal session and use ifconfig to set the ip address like so

ifconfig 192.168.0.10 255.255.255.0

assuming 192.168.0.10 is what you want to set the IP address to.

and then add the gateway like this

route add default 192.168.0.1

and dns servers into /etc/resolv.conf

in the format of:

nameserver 123.123.123.123

if none of this makes anysense, install windows, guessing that will be the best bet

[paulr33]

hi pva glue

you can overwrite the root password if you have local access to the box.

boot the box up and when it comes to the lilo prompt or it maybe grub boot loader

you should be able to enter

linux single

when it boots it go to start mutlimode daemons, and then kill them all

once that is done it will boot to a prompt and say linux# instead of your systems name and it wont ask for user/passs as you get granted local admin due to the boot mode. you can then run

passwd

and set your root password to whatever you like. then type

reboot

and youll be done

if that doesn't work, get a boot disk from debian or slackware boot up and mount the root disk also, make sure it has support for your hard disk and then mount the disk in /mnt/disk or something then run chroot /mnt/disk then run

passwd

and it will achieve the same thing

[paulr33]

also if your gonna keep it get rid of fedora and put something youll learn on and use that id say slackware or debian, both great to learn on

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