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Devien

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Registered: 2010-05-21

Posts: 3

Can't login to Boot CD

I'm trying to install ArchLinux on an older machine. P2 450Mhz 256mb RAM. But when I get to the point where it asks me to login as root to start the install it just gives me a message which says " Login Incorrect" when I typr "root" then press enter. It repeats "Login Incorrect" 5 times then returns to where you type in a username. Any help would be appreciated!

evr

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Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Can't login to Boot CD

which iso image are you using?

Devien

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Registered: 2010-05-21

Posts: 3

Re: Can't login to Boot CD

which iso image are you using?

archlinux-2010.05-netinstall-i686

wonder

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Re: Can't login to Boot CD

that could happen for two reasons:
1) the image was corrupted and you didn't check it to see if is matching md5/sha1
2) not enough ram

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Devien

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Registered: 2010-05-21

Posts: 3

Re: Can't login to Boot CD

that could happen for two reasons:
1) the image was corrupted and you didn't check it to see if is matching md5/sha1
2) not enough ram

I tried using the core install instead and it didn't work either. I assume I wasn't unlucky enough to get two image files corrupted so then I assume it's the ram. Oh well, I'll just try another distro. Thanks for the help!

Last edited by Devien (2010-05-21 18:54:17)