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[Hypex]

I usually get this problem at the command line that I can't log in as root. It happened to me on MacOSX and also Ubuntu. And to a friend who needed root access but Ubuntu kept rejecting his root password!

Another way around it is to enter this:
sudo su root

And then put in your password.

That reminds me, is there or will there be a working MOL setup in the future? X1000 be nice machne to add OSX to the OS list.

[musa]

@all
Do we have a thread for general X1000 related Linux Questions ? If not, her my question:
How to log into MintPPC/XFCE as root ?

You may at any time, press CTRL AMIGA (WINDOWS) and get access to what you might call a dos terminal. write as root user with the logon promt, and then your root password. You press CTRL F7 to go back to where you came from.
Inside Mint you can in a terminal, type gksudo nautilus and get a file manager with root privileges.

[trevordick]

Inside Mint you can in a terminal, type gksudo nautilus and get a file manager with root privileges.

Yes there are many ways to achieve the same thing.

Trevor

[Hypex]

Tried to install Ubuntu again tonight. It gets as far as trying to set the SATA drivers. It changes the speed, reports errors, waits on the bus with no luck then reboots my X1000. The splash screen comes up but I get that CFE bug again where it won't boot and the machine needs a hard reset. Or in my case switch off and give up. I'm not having much luck with Linux!

Noticed there is a newer net installer initrd. Going to try that next.

[musa]

Tried to install Ubuntu again tonight. It gets as far as trying to set the SATA drivers. It changes the speed, reports errors, waits on the bus with no luck then reboots my X1000. The splash screen comes up but I get that CFE bug again where it won't boot and the machine needs a hard reset. Or in my case switch off and give up. I'm not having much luck with Linux!

Noticed there is a newer net installer initrd. Going to try that next.

Hi
What Kernel do you use?

[gerograph]

@musa

Inside Mint you can in a terminal, type gksudo nautilus and get a file manager with root privileges.

Thanks, that helps. However, one more question:

How can I install a "GTK theme" (e.g. from gnome-look.org) ? This is what I did:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/lxappearance, therefore my downloaded theme is unpacked and resides in ~/.themes , still cannot see it in LXAppearance ? Copying the theme was done via a root terminal...

[musa]

@musa

Inside Mint you can in a terminal, type gksudo nautilus and get a file manager with root privileges.

Thanks, that helps. However, one more question:

How can I install a "GTK theme" (e.g. from gnome-look.org) ? This is what I did:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/lxappearance, therefore my downloaded theme is unpacked and resides in ~/.themes , still cannot see it in LXAppearance ? Copying the theme was done via a root terminal...

Hi
Once you have unzipped the theme folder you must place it in / usr / share / theme. Then you can see it LXAppearance

[Hypex]

Hi
What Kernel do you use?

PW-1.2.

I also got a kerrnel panic when I had a "console" line in my bootargs. These kernels are sensitive!

[musa]

Hi
What Kernel do you use?

PW-1.2.

I also got a kerrnel panic when I had a "console" line in my bootargs. These kernels are sensitive!

You can trye this one to http://www.fileden.com/files/2012/6/20/ ... l-39cf.zip
its the one with cf0 support.
I've booted ubuntu on both vmlinuxpw-1.2 and the last one here with no problem. Try another memmory stick.
Good luck

[mechanic]

Copying the theme was done via a root terminal...

Save yourself a lot of time and typing by installing Gnome-commander.
It is about as close to Dopus4 as you can get.

Under it's file menu for example;

Log in as root.
Change file permissions
Create symbolic links.

Remote connections, copy & paste, make directories, and much more.