From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 17 7:36:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailin5.bigpond.com (juicer02.bigpond.com [139.134.6.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B92637B422 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 07:36:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.55]) by mailin5.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDHI5W00.COX; Fri, 18 May 2001 00:41:56 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-142-177.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.142.177]) by mail4.bigpond.com (Claudes-Aquatic-MailRouter V2.9c 7/19409106); 18 May 2001 00:36:28 Message-ID: <0bee01c0dede$c5164190$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Mario Lia" , "Brian Lau" , "Matthew Murphy" Cc: References: <11320621107BD211A07B0008C70994BE0273E541@EXCHANGE> Subject: Re: Installing Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 00:36:32 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I am in the process of my first FreeBSD install and in one of my many > install attempts I did enter into that situation. The way I did it, was to > take the "Custom" install path. When you do that you aren't forced into > setting a root password, you only set it if you want to. > Ahhhhhhhh ..... thanks Mario. I've done hundreds of installs but always using "standard" install. Sounds like you've answered the question though. I think it might be worth posting a problem report about this issue .... at the least in would be good to strengthen the wording of the line that advises use of "standard" install. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message