[Sussex] Installing Gentoo - more questions

[John D.]

Hi List,

Well, believe it or not, it appears that I have managed to get a basic install 
of gentoo, but have come across a couple of snags.

Firstly, when I got the installing a bootloader, I did the stuff that the 
install guide suggests, but when running /sbin/lilo it told me that it was 
unable to work out which video adapter to use, but it still added gentoo and 
windows (because of the previous questions that I've asked you all, I decided 
that it might be better if I installed the gentoo stuff first, and just boot 
my mandrake install from a floppy - which seems to be working!).

Video adapter? is this to do with configuring X or installing nvidia drivers 
maybe ??

Also, when I was adding passwords for root and user, I went off into "cloud 
cuckoo land", and just used the ubiquitious mix of numbers, letters and 
punctuation signs - BUT, like the total nugget that I am, I totally forgot 
that I was installing with the default US keyboard. And of course, if you're 
having to blindly follow the install guide, because you haven't really got a 
clue what you're doing, you set complicated passwords before you modify some 
of the basic settings in /etc/rc.conf (little things like uk.map.gz for the 
keyboard setting :?) as a result, I'm the nugget who can't log in as either 
root or user, because I can't find out what the key map equivalent's are 
between US and UK keyboard settings.

Can someone tell me if, and how I would log in as a "single" user so I can 
allocate a new password to root ? or do you know of any links that I can 
check/compare so I know what keys I need to actually use to get logged in so 
I can see if I can then change the respective passwords ??

More Q's later, as it would probably be better if I got the basic's sorted out 
first :p

regards

John D.