[AuckLUG] Help with Ubuntu

[Daniel Pittman]

ken at lomax.gen.nz writes:

> After seeing people extol the virtues of Ubuntu on this list, I
> thought I would give it a try.
>
> I have a DVD for Ubuntu Version 6.0 from Linux Magazine August
> 2006. Today I installed a 'Server Install'. The install went
> reasonably ok. then the 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. 

As others have said, your problems began slightly earlier than that.

Ubuntu uses sudo from the first user account to mediate access to root;
you shouldn't ever need to assign a password to root directly.

Did you actually try using sudo, or did you start directly with trying
to log in as root?

> Then I wanted to install 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. 

Correct.  Ubuntu policy -- server or not -- is that there will be no
open ports on a default installation, so all of those daemons are not
installed by default.

> So I decided to look on the dvd. While the machine recognised the dvd,
> it would not display anything using 'ls' except for "." and "..". It
> appears that there is little that I can do with this machine.

Did you mount the DVD at all?  If so, where, and what (if any) messages
did the kernel display about the content during the mounting process?

Regards,
        Daniel
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