Mandrake 10

I'm new to Mandrake. I've recently installed Mandrake 10 into a VMWare virtual machine and I'm trying to install the VMWare tools.

This install has to be done while logged in as root in runlevel 3
I've gotten the system into runlevel three while logged into the graphical, which of course shuts down XFree86.

Now the problem is no matter what I do I can't login as root. I've also tried su, but that doesn't work either. I can login as a user, but not as the root user.

Any help is appreciated.

Nevermind, I figured it out.

Once I enabled root to be shown on the graphical login, I was able to login in text mode using root.

I didn't realize that if root was a hidden user, you couldn't login as root in text mode.