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[AuckLUG] Help with Ubuntu

Jim Tittsler jtittsler at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 02:33:02 NZDT 2006


On 10/17/06, ken at lomax.gen.nz <ken at lomax.gen.nz> wrote:
> problems began. Firstly I had to reboot and go into rescue mode to assign a
> password to root, so I could work on the machine.

The "Ubuntu way" would have been to use sudo when you needed root permissions.

> some services (nptd, dhcpd, named, etc). They did not appear to be installed
> and I do not remember any screen during install that asked which services
> that I wanted. So I decided to look on the dvd.

'sudo apt-cdrom add'
although if you have good connectivity, you could fetch from the 'net.



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