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Felix Jodoin
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Apr 13 15:55:02 2004
It doesn't have stars for a password, it appears if you aren't entering
anything. I.E. type your password and hit enter.
It won't have dots or stars ;)
On 13-Apr-04, at 4:49 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> First, check if your num lock is on when typing the password (if it
> contains numbers).
>
> Then, check if caps lock is not accidentally on.
>
> If that's still not working, here's a wild guess: this might be a
> keyboard layout issue.
> Maybe during the install, your keyboard layout is set to querty, while
> during normal boot, it gets configured as azerty, or the other way
> around.
>
> For testers, type your password as if you were on the other keyboard
> layout.
>
>
> Hope any of these help.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Geert Janssens
>
> Mark Pubols wrote:
>> Hello,
>> new to the YDL and in fact this is my first Linux OS installed. I've
>> put it on a Beige G3 DT and have gone with a desktop install.
>> Everything has apparently gone on the computer just fine except I
>> can't really be sure since I can't make it past the password entry.
>> I've installed this thing 4 times now and each time I've tweaked the
>> password a little bit and every time I can't get past the password at
>> all.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Mark
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