Lordshooter

Hello

I just upgraded my laptop with a new heatsink/fan and a new touchpad/palmrest, and installed SymplyMEPIS 6.5 on to my brandnew SSD (32GB Transcend).

Installation whent fine, and it installed 100% without problems.
At the end, it asked me for a username and password, which I tiped in.

But then: I tryed to log in, and I received a message, that the password is incorrect, and that login is uncuccessful/denied/refused, or whatever.

I tried several times, but only got the same error message.

What did I do wrong? How can I set a new password for the login to SymplyMEPIS?

My laptop is a IBM ThinkPad T41.

I would be very grateful for quick and efficiant help, as I am not able to login to my operation system.

Alexander

ozar

Welcome to the forums!

Here's a HowTo you can use to reset root and/or user passwords:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...-password.html

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Lordshooter

Hello ozar,
thanks, but this looks way to complicated for me (newbie).
It is just a simple thing:
1) Installed OS.
2) OS does not accept password that it asked for at the end of the intallation procedure.

There should sure be a easyer way to do it???

Alexander

ozar

Have you tried reinstalling? Other than following the steps in the HowTo, a reinstall would probably be the easiest.

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Lordshooter

Maybe easyer to reinstall the OS, and let it ask again for username and password again.

Lordshooter

Yes, you just read my mind.

You just came at the same time.

Yes, I agree, you speak out of my mind.

Alexander

ozar

Passwords are case sensitive, so keep that in mind.

Let us know how it goes.

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Lordshooter

I will log out, now.

1) I will try again, to log in to the OS.

2) If it wont't work, I shal reinstall the OS.

3) I will then let you know (later), if I succeeded.

Thanks, see you later.

Alexander

Lordshooter

Problem solved.

Solution: Reinstallation of the OS, and then writing username and password, as well as all the other names in smal letters.
Example: Username, first: "Meier", then second time: "meier". - Perhaps that did the trick. I have no idea.

Thank you, for your attention.

New question:

For this installation of SimplyMEPIS, I am sure, I only had the possibilty of "autoinstall", becaus "GParted", as well as "QTParted", someohow did not work.

So anyway:
I have done a fresh install by autoinstall onto a new SSD.
Having looked in the way that it has been partitioned, dos not look ideal.
I have ca. 32 GB.

This is what gtparted shows me:

/dev/hdd
Model: TS32GSSD25-M (Transcend)
Total size: 30239.5
Sectors: 61930575
Status: occupied

hda1 (2.57 GB) hda3 (1.12 GB)
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01 /dev/hda1 ext3 activ 9.77 GB used size: 2.57 GB End: 9.77 GB

02 /dev/hda2 linux-swap 1000.37MB used size: 0.00MB End: 10.74 GB

03 /dev/hda3 ext3 18.79 GB used size: 1.12 GB End: 29.53 GB

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Now, this is how I thought, it might be better for me:

OS:
root ca. 5 GB (max. 8 GB)

home ca. 7 GB

swap ca. 400 MB

USER DATA:
other/user data, etc. ca. 20 GB

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I would be grateful, if some members can tell me, how I am able to proceed:
How I can resize/change my partition sizes, to my specific needs, as shown in a sugestion. Other sugestions welcome.

Thank you.

Alexander

ozar

You can use the Parted Magic LiveCD to easily shrink/expand partitions:

Parted Magic

It's quite easy to use and runs entirely off the LiveCD.

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