[OpenIndiana-discuss] beginners question about OI

[John Thornton]

Thanks for that! That worked! Then I downloaded some packages under root,
such as ruby.

Some odd p-oints:

[1] In installation from the desktop version I couldn't get the desktop
install icon to work by clicking. I had to right click/open to bring the
installation procedure and GUI up.
[2] When I installed and rebooted I was asked to put in username and
password in the text console, then I was asked to put them in again in a
splash screen log in box - so I had to input the same things twice. Weird.

Interesting distro though. I did play with opensolaris a little bit a few
years ago when it was open. Nice packages such as high performance
computing; you seem to be more enterprise/serious user focused than say,
ubuntu.

I might talk about OpenIndiana at software freedom day tomorrow.

Thanks again
John

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:00 AM, <cwjordanoi at cox.net> wrote:

> John,
>
> I just doublechecked and the current release of OpenIndiana
> (oi-dev-151a-x86.iso from http://openindiana.org/download/) does prompt
> you for the root password when you install it.  This happens at the top of
> the same screen where you set the name for your user account.
>
> You will then get asked for that root password if you run the Package
> Manager tool from the desktop.  However it looks like the bug in version 148
> where the initial root password is expired has not yet been fixed.  So
> you'll need to pull up a terminal window and reset the root password first,
> using the root password you set during installation.  This is documented in
> bug #1055: https://www.illumos.org/issues/1055, however that bug is not
> listed in the release notes.
>
> cwjordan at openindiana151a:~$ su -
> Password:
> su: Password for user 'root' has expired
> New Password:
> Re-enter new Password:
> su: password successfully changed for root
> OpenIndiana (powered by illumos)     SunOS 5.11     oi_151a     September
> 2011
>
> Chris Jordan
> cwjordan at cox.net
>
> ---- John Thornton <secretelf77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello
> >        I have put OpenIndiana into Oracle Virtual Box. No password was
> asked
> > for and the desktop has booted up OK. But when I try to update software a
> > password is asked for. I have never put one in. I have tried all the
> obvious
> > things like root, toor, admin. I can't find anything in the
> documentation;
> > can someone please help?
> >
> >      Thank you [first time Opensolaris or Indiana user]
>
>