[Liverpool] Mounting floppy in Ubuntu

David Watson david at planetwatson.co.uk
Sun Jan 22 11:41:04 GMT 2006


On Sunday 22 January 2006 07:24, LALAYNG at aol.com wrote:
> Thanks, David.  It looks like I will have to reinstall Ubuntu and pay  more
> attention to any root passwords it demands.  I'm afraid I try to avoid 
> setting up any passwords, since I am the sole user of this computer (and
> indeed,  of Linux) in my family.
>
> I'm impressed with the way you chaps know your code, though.  Making
> Directories and changing them is about my limit!
>
> Anthony

On Ubuntu there is no root password, it is your user password that you need to 
use with sudo (the same one you use to log on).  So you shouldn't have to 
reinstall.


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