[TriLUG] Install - ThinkPad T20

Carl Crider c.crider at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 13:31:05 EDT 2005


If you dont mind using Fluxbox, DSL is a darn-good distro to use. 
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

It has everything that you want, and any other packages can be added to it
easily. 

On 7/19/05, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu <crimsun at fungus.sh.nu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:38:00PM -0400, Alan Porter wrote:
> > I'm like you, I can't stand it.  So the first thing I do on a
> > Ubuntu system is "sudo bash" and then "passwd root".  Then it'll
> > be just like what you were expecting, more like Debian, Red Hat,
> > etc.
> 
> The Debian installer accepts a blank root password as indication that
> the user wants to use sudo (which is the setting that Ubuntu uses) and
> disables the root account. You could always choose "go back" and enter
> a password during the install (be it the express or the expert mode).
> 
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