On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:52:38PM -0500, Roy wrote:
> I am giving Fedora 16 a spin but have a problem early on.
>
> It installed fine. The installer wasn't very good, but that is another
> story. When Fedora asked for my user name I had a problem. It would
> not type the letter y. Instead it gave me a z. Lots of letters were
> mixed up. I went ahead with the installation because by that point it
> was already on my system because Fedora asks for your user name
> post-installation.
I'm not a big fan of anaconda, but I don't hate it either. It has some
peculiar defaults, IMHO.
>
> When I got in I found the keyboard was set for Switzerland and my
> timezone was set for there too. I am 100% sure that I selected Toronto
> because it was set for New York as default and I scrolled down the
> list to get Toronto. I also remember setting the keyboard to US
> because I always have language and keyboard setup different from the
> default (keyboard US, language UK). Anyway, I got in and could not
> type much. I changed the keyboard to US.
>
Could be a bug, but I haven't seen anything like that on the Fedora
forums, so perhaps just a mistype somewhere. At any rate, on to your
question
> can't type anything worthwhile. I could change the root and user
> password if only I knew what they were. :)
>
> Any suggestions?
Yes, just add single or 1 (the number, not a lower case L), at the end
of the kernel line. I'm assuming you are familiar with editing grub, if
not, post again.
This will boot you into a text mode with a # root prompt. Change the
root password with the passwd command, then change the user's password
with passwd <username> as well, since Fedora won't allow root to boot
into a GUI. (There are ways around it, but that's the default
behavior).
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