From: Alan H. <al...@fa...> - 2006-04-30 17:43:22
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On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 18:33 +0200, Gilles Espinasse wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ivan Kabaivanov" <ch...@ya...> > To: "Alan Hourihane" <al...@fa...> > Cc: <ipc...@li...> > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 6:13 PM > Subject: Re: [IPCop-devel] New Installer for 1.5 > > > > On Sunday 30 April 2006 05:50, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 18:44 -0400, Ivan Kabaivanov wrote: > > > > On Saturday 29 April 2006 15:41, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 20:30 +0200, Achim Weber wrote: > > > > > > Alan Hourihane wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 18:20 +0200, Achim Weber wrote: > > > > > > >> When I select [OK] to choose automatic patitioning instead of > > > > > > >> [fdisk] I get a grub splashscreen but the options are not > working. > > > > > > >> I get grub error: "Error 15: file not found" > > > > > > >> What makes me a bit perplex is the grub-config line: > > > > > > >> "kernel /vmlinuz root=LABEL=/ ro panic=10 acpi=off" > > > > > > >> Shouldn't be the LABEL a device name? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Whoops. Sorry I missed this part of your email. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So, onto this bit... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There's something screwy with the grub.conf file. If you press > 'e' > > > > > > > to edit the boot label and delete the line that says > 'savedefault' > > > > > > > and hit 'b' to boot. It should be fine. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I need to look at why it's not liking savedefault. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Alan. > > > > > > > > > > > > Wow, that did the trick! Thanks Alan. > > > > > > > > > > > > Now I have to set root PW and setup the network, but not today... > > > > > > > > > > rootpw defaults to 'ipcop' now. > > > > > > > > > > Alan. > > > > > > > > Default root passwords are always a bad idea... > > > > > > Not really. All off the shelf boxes have default passwords, and you as > > > the customer has to change it to ensure your own security. > > > > > > We can make the 1.5 installer offer to set a root password again in the > > > future though. > > > > > > Alan. > > > > Yes, but we're not talking about off the shelf consumer products here, > where > > marketing trumps good reason ("So user-friendly, even your mom can use > it!"). > > In the context of a firewall with an installer, you must ask the user to > set > > such an important piece of information as the root password. Arguably the > > admin password seems more important than the root password, but we should > > make no assumptions and cut corners in the name of "ease of use." > > > > IvanK. > > > gentoo make an 'root' random password that you have to set during first step > of the install > > Just my two cents No problem folks. We'll add setting the admin & root password into the installer. Alan. |