Can't login to Scientific Linux

[Cocoa]

I Installed the 2 disks, but I didn't run into a spot where to place a user name, and when it's time to login, I have a password, but no user name, so I can't login, login fails. And I doubt installing the 2 disks again is going to help this problem go away. How does one login to SL after the install?

[Rubberman]

Did you try logging in as root using the password you have set?

[Cocoa]

I don't know how to login as root on boot up of Scientific Linux, but I'm sure I'll eventually get this OS up and running.

Where do you set the user name in SC OS?

[Rubberman]

You don't usually. You create new users from the root account where you will configure the system services that you need. When you get to the login prompt, enter the user name 'root' (no quotes) and the password you selected when prompted for that.

[Cocoa]

ohh silly me. (um, where's the blushing smilie?)

[oz]

ohh silly me. (um, where's the blushing smilie?)

Hello and welcome!

Click the [More] link in the smilies selection box for more smilies. Blushie should be in there somewhere.

[Cocoa]

I think I have a problem. "root" plus password starts the SL-OS, but "startx" gets me the message "no screens found, fatal 10 error 104". Sounds serious.

"xf86config" gets message "command not found".

And I'm google'ing for the next thing to try.

"s3virge" = nothing yet.

Um? "abracadabra" = nothing yet.

Um? "Go! Damn You!" = still nothing.

I tried ten other suggestions I ran into, and still nothing.


i tried every thing I found in surfing for a solution. I suspect SL doesn't see my monitor. I do. This OS must be blind.
I would have liked to test out SL, but in the morning I think I'll put this hd back to Fedora.
At least Fedora works without "digging in its heals and dragging its feet".

[Rubberman]

Scientific Linux is intended primarily as a server (command line) distribution. You can install any number of desktop managers such as KDE, Gnome, etc. Try installing using yum kde. It should also deal with installing any X11/xorg dependencies for you.

[Cocoa]

I knew I had to learn Linux a lot more than I know, now that I've got the basics, so this is my "step two".

I determined SL-OS would be a bit of a toughy to learn on, but it's what I need as my "on line Linux School", to fulfil this goal. The hardest part of the exercise, is trying to maintain my temper down while "in class", forever bumping into walls and dead-ends and can't do's.

I couldn't find an open, basics blog nor forum on SL. Seems this OS is just for the "computer wizards" the school taught computer wise ones. Most of the stuff on the Net about SL is written for those who already understand the deep inner workings of Linux and Red Hat computer operating systems. The world needs a good thread that tells people how to run the front end of SL-RH-OS. Maybe this thread would be a good place for the SL experts to do their thing in. Maybe the rest of us should just stay out of the thread while the experts do what needs be done.

The thread already has a good search title which pretty well covers it. All we need now, is for our expert brothers to proudly fill it up, with clean reality, honesty, and love.

And answer this: How secure and honest is SL, given it's base and sources.
How "scientific" is this SL-OS?

Why do those who like SL, like SL?

I'm thinking that a dual boot hd with SL and Fedora would be prime as it gets. Add Windows if you must.

[Rubberman]

SL is basically Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the logos changed and enhancements made to the Kerberos security / remote access software. It is extensively used world-wide in scientific research labs and is maintained by a number of the largest physics labs in the world including CERN, Fermi Lab, and Argonne National Lab. My wife is a physicist at Fermi Lab and they use it there to run thousands of servers used for the analysis of data accumulated by the Fermi Lab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. It is as reliable and secure an operating system as you can find anywhere today. Besides the servers my wife maintains, we also use it on a 10" Toshiba netbook, a Sony Vaio laptop, and I run it on a virtual machine in my CentOS workstation for my work. All sources are freely available, and it is actively maintained by some of the smartest people on the planet, many of whom are personal friends of my wife and me.