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| 556772 | 2007-06-07 00:05:00 | Have installed Kubuntu on a partition and was not given the oppertunity to put in a root password dureing the install.I now do not have permission to access the partition and it does not show up in "media" but boots ok from Grub I have other OS's and can access the drive from them but would like to set up root access in ubuntu ??? |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 556773 | 2007-06-07 00:57:00 | To enable the root account in Kubuntu: Open up a shell. This should be located under K>>System>>Konsole (I think - it's been a while since I last looked at Kubuntu). Type 'sudo bash' and hit enter. You will be prompted for your password. This will give you a 'root' level command prompt - the prompt should now end with a '#' to indicate you are root. Now type 'passwd' and hit enter. This will prompt you for a new password. Once this is set, the root account is now enabled. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 556774 | 2007-06-07 02:06:00 | That worked but I still can not "see" my ubuntu partition.I have created a dir for the drive but can not access the fstab file cause the drive does not show.Even from one of my other OS's I can get to the fstab but can not change it | kjaada (253) | ||
| 556775 | 2007-06-07 04:12:00 | That is the one thing I hated about Kubuntu. If its not your home directory or removable storage, good luck trying to access it... | Sherman (9181) | ||
| 556776 | 2007-06-07 06:10:00 | Can you browse to the / directory if you put / in the address bar of Konqueror? What happens if you open up fstab directly as sudo with a text editor? Eg: $ sudo kwrite /etc/fstab |
Jen (38) | ||
| 556777 | 2007-06-07 06:24:00 | I have uninstalled kubuntu in the mean time.I was not all that struck on it after PCLinuxOS but played with it after seeing ubuntu was the No1 linux OS.The fact that it did not "see" its own partition was beyond me.I could have understood it not recognising my Xandros or PCLinux partitions,but its own disk ????? |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 556778 | 2007-06-07 06:40:00 | It will have been able to see it, just not perhaps in the way you were expecting. Did you mount the disk? | Erayd (23) | ||
| 556779 | 2007-06-07 06:50:00 | Why would I have to mount the disk the OS was on.AND I did try after to mount the disk but I could not as I did not have permission.This has been a very strange exercise. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 556780 | 2007-06-07 07:32:00 | Aah... Must've misunderstood you there, the impression I got was that you were trying to access another OS's partition from within kubuntu. What happened when you went to / in konqueror? I'd be willing to bet money you saw the contents of your kubuntu partition. Note that you need to be root if you want to write to it. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 556781 | 2007-06-07 07:44:00 | Forget about "disks" for the moment. After you have booted there is a single file system, rooted on "/". That's where your Ubuntu "partition" is. It was mounted at "/" as part of the boot process. You don't need to make a directory for it. It is already there. Only if you wish to add other partitions to the filesystem do you need to mount them onto mountpoints in the booted file system. /etc/fstab is fstab. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
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