[Sussex] Newcomer

[Dave Chapman]

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 00:50, Martin Easton wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Ok I assume when you say login as root, that I type "root" in the login
> screen. That doesn't work, so I login with my user name "martin" the only
> other name I have is "admin" which I need to use when administrator
> privileges were called for in the KDE desktop.
administrator is a windows thing
The Linux equivelent is root
> If I login as "martin" then the only window I can access similar to a DOS
> window is by selecting the XTERM option. Please bear in mind I have never
> used Linux until 2 days ago.
OK
Login as martin then in the xterm type 
su
	then the root password that you should have setup during install
Then type 
yast2
	If that does not work try
yast

yast2 is the nicer graphical version of yast

>
> When I get to the XTERM window the YAST command is not recognised.
>
> Sorry but still stuck.
>
> If you use MSN messenger, or Skype we chat to resolve it if that is
> quicker.
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