[SOLVED] need help-installing pclos on hd

[dynosis]

no it just told me that : guest login as guest pass as guest or
root pss as root

it never gave me a chance to create a login?
i messed up didn't i?

[dynosis]

it never gave me that chance.
it just said use: guest, guest  or root, root to login
i messed up didn't i?

[dynosis]

any help?
i am in desktop by way of Livecd.
anyway to add or correct login issue?

[Old-Polack]

any help?
i am in desktop by way of Livecd.
anyway to add or correct login issue?

If you've actually done the installation to hard drive, remove the liveCD and boot to PCLinuxOS. The first thing you are asked to do is create a root password of your own, not "root"... that's just for the liveCD. The next item is to create a normal user with his own unique user name and password. Once that's done you can log in as your normal user at the log in screen.

[dynosis]

thank you very much. sometimes too much info is bad. i was creating 3 partitions: /, swap and /home. the last one was wrong no /home but the default /usr and solved my problem.
again, you guys are really fantastic because not only you help but your patience is a virtue!

talk you soon

[Old-Polack]

thank you very much. sometimes too much info is bad. i was creating 3 partitions: /, swap and /home. the last one was wrong no /home but the default /usr and solved my problem.
again, you guys are really fantastic because not only you help but your patience is a virtue!

talk you soon

You don't need a separate partition for /usr, and it is not a default. You are offered choices and you must choose what is appropriate for your installation. For most home installations /usr is just a directory in the / partition. Most of your applications are installed in sub directories of /usr. Having a separate partition mounted at /home makes more sense, as that is where all your normal users will store all of their personal data.

Before continuing, you really should fix that, or you will waste a lot of space contained in the /usr partition, with the present layout, and rapidly run out of space for your generated user data.

[dynosis]

i did not know that. how do i open a gparted app. i cannot find it? i want to see my setup partitions. thanks.
by making 3 part 1/, 1swap and 1uusr, it permitted me to do what you said ,it made me create a user and password, both for root and user. the other way making 1/ 1swap and 1home i could not create user accts , it brought me straight to login.

[Old-Polack]

i did not know that. how do i open a gparted app. i cannot find it? i want to see my setup partitions. thanks.
by making 3 part 1/, 1swap and 1uusr, it permitted me to do what you said ,it made me create a user and password, both for root and user. the other way making 1/ 1swap and 1home i could not create user accts , it brought me straight to login.

Open a terminal (konsole) and at the prompt enter;

[polack@fatman ~]$ df -h                          <Enter>

You will get a readout showing your mounted partitions, their size, available free space, and mount point. Mine currently shows this;

Code:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8              30G   25G  3.6G  88% /
/dev/sda13             30G   13G   16G  47% /share1
/dev/sdb6             188G  101G   77G  57% /share9
/dev/sdb9             111G   87G   18G  84% /movies
/dev/sda12            296G  236G   46G  84% /movies2
/dev/sda5             101G   53G   43G  56% /home/polack/Documents
/dev/sdb5              94G   76G   14G  86% /home/polack/Documents2

I don't have a separate /home partition. Instead, I have the six data partitions shown, to hold my personal stuff.

[dynosis]

[dynosis@localhost ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc6             9.7G  759M  8.4G   9% /
/dev/sdc8             5.0G  2.2G  2.6G  46% /usr
[dynosis@localhost ~]$

can you help solve this probelm. i know little about / and so on. Can i just rename /usr to /home, or can merge into one part /. /usr waste of space  and will cause trouble in future.
thanks

[Old-Polack]

[dynosis@localhost ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc6             9.7G  759M  8.4G   9% /
/dev/sdc8             5.0G  2.2G  2.6G  46% /usr
[dynosis@localhost ~]$

can you help solve this problem. i know little about / and so on. Can i just rename /usr to /home, or can merge into one part /. /usr waste of space  and will cause trouble in future.
thanks

Reconsidering, because you have such a small /usr partition, and almost nothing in the / partition that now holds your /home directory, I'm thinking leave it alone, as is. The whole installation is less than 15 GB, and it's working. When you have some experience with it, and decide to make a more permanent installation on a much larger drive, then ask for help and we'll get you set up properly. The one thing you could do that would help a little would be to delete the second swap partition on /dev/sdc7 and resize the / partition to include that extra 2 GB. You only need one swap partition, as it can be shared by however many installations you actually have, depending on which one is actually being run at any given time.

[dynosis]

thank you. Good call.
i will heed your advice and learn before i mess things up. i will cxl one swap and add it to /.
again thanks, and talk you soon.
where can i look for documentation on pclos for starters?

[AS]

thank you. Good call.
i will heed your advice and learn before i mess things up. i will cxl one swap and add it to /.
again thanks, and talk you soon.
where can i look for documentation on pclos for starters?

There is a knowledge base: http://www.pclinuxoshelp.com/index.php/Main_Page
Lot of good articles on PCLinuxOS magazine: http://www.pclosmag.com

AS

[dynosis]

how do we mark a topic SOLVED???

[AS]

how do we mark a topic SOLVED???

edit your first post in this thread.