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Dylan

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Mar 7, 2001, 2:30:06 PM3/7/01
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I am using winlinux200 and I tried to install enlightenment. I downloaded
enlight.tgz, and unarchived it, and ran elightenment.install.

I did all this as root.

It said I should then log out and restart the X server which I did. So I
try to log back into KDE as root - and my computer freezes up, goes black,
then goes back to the login screen.

SO

i can only login to linux as a user i created with almost no permissions

I need to figure out how to:

1. Get back those files that enlightenment.install replaced (it said it
backed them up somewhere, but i can't find them)

2. re-install kde in my root user profile.

And in the user that I can login in to, I can't install the module for my
network card because i don't have the permission, so i can't use the net
in linux anymore!

i can edit linux files from windows sine i have winlinux, which does not
create a partition.

pplleeaassee help!

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Stephan Beal

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Mar 8, 2001, 11:21:01 AM3/8/01
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Dylan wrote:

> i can only login to linux as a user i created with almost no permissions

Type "su" at the console prompt to log in as the root user (you will be
asked for the password). If you told your installation to start in
graphical mode (unwise decision, IMO), then you can get around this by
tapping one of Alt-F2, Alt-F3... Alt-F6 to get to another virtual console.
You can then do whatever you want from the console, and can use all of them
at once (you don't need to close your editor, for example, simply tap
Alt-F3 and use another console). If you are in X, you will need to type
Ctrl-Alt-Fx, and not just Alt-Fx. When you use a virtual console, you don't
have to type 'su' - simply log in as root on that console.

> i can edit linux files from windows sine i have winlinux, which does not
> create a partition.

I can't say anything about the winlinux-specific stuff, sorry.

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