Can't install fedora

[devils casper]

oops ! it was typo. Type all-generic-ide only. Did you hit enter key after typing parameters?
e -- select kernel line -- e -- type parameters -- hit enter key -- b

[goude]

Hooaaraaaayyy!!!!!

It works casper!

What can I say? Once more you've been very helpful!!!!!

Thank you very much!!!

P.S: Do I have to do that every time I boot up or it is permanent? Also at the SELINUX which option do I choose enforcing, permissive or disabled?

[devils casper]

Boot up Fedora and Log in as root. Open /boot/grub/grub.conf file. Add parameters at the end of kernel line. Save file and reboot. You wont have to write those again.

Also at the SELINUX which option do I choose enforcing, permissive or disabled?

Select Permissive but I have disabled it in my machine.

Glad to help you.

[goude]

Hey capser, I changed the grub.conf file and fedora boots up nicely no problems.
However, when I try to log in with my user account it gives me the following error:

Your home directory is listed as: "/home/goude" but it does not appear to exist. Do you want to log in with the /(root) directory as your home directory?

It is unlikely anything will work unless you use a failsafe session.

Can you please tell me what to do, next? I can log in as root but not as a normal user.

Thank you Casper!!!!

[devils casper]

Log in as root and check if /home/goude folder exists.

ls /home

In case it doesn't list goude folder create new.

mkdir /home/goude
chown goude:users /home/goude

Try to login as user 'goude'.
In case nothing works, create new regular user with adduser command.

[goude]

I run the commands you wrote and I can log in now but this created a new account.

I already have an account which is on the network. I can log in to any other machine with my existing account but not on the computer I have just installed fedora.

How can I make my existing account work on a newly installed fedora machine?
Is it possible to delete the account I just created with the commands in the previous post?


Thank you casper!!!

[goude]

Hey Casper,

Problem solved.
I just had to mount the server (mount -a) where my account was created to my machine and add it to my fstab file.
It works fine now!

Thank you!!!

[goude]

Dear Casper,

I have a problem again!
Whenever I log in with my user account, the following message pops out:

User's HOME/. dmrc. file is being ignored. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's home directory must be owned by user and not be writable by other users.

I click ok and x starts without problems.
I changed the permissions of my home directory then rebooted but the error didn't go away.
First, I typed: chown 644 home, rebooted the machine but no luck.
Then I typed: chmod 644 home, rebooted the machine but error still there.

I don't understand.
It just tells me to change the permissions of my home directory. Although I did that, it doesn't seem to fix the problem.

Any kind of advice would be highly appreciatted!!

Thank you casper!!!

[RobinVossen]

it said that you dont have access to the dmrc file
So you should do
chmod 644 ~/.dmrc

and chown changes the owner.
So chown 644 home makes the owner of the folder home into the user 644

To fix this all do the following..

chown root /home
chown goude /home/goude/.dmrc
chmod 644 /home/.dmrc

[goude]

Hey Robin, thanks for your reply,

I run the commands you told me but didn't make any difference.
The first two:
chown root /home
chown goude /home/goude/.dmrc
didn't give any error but the last one:
chmod 644 /home/.dmrc
gave me the error: chmod: cannot access `/home/.dmrc': No such file or directory

That's weird because it can change the ownership of the file dmrc but it can't change the mode of that file. At least this is how I understand it.