Re: failed to initialize core devices

[DennisD0TC0M@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/18/2002 11:34:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, Cyberclops@hawaii.rr.com writes:


> Removing the user is a good idea, but the problem I have had is putting the same
> user name back can cause problems because Linux doesn't always cleanly remove
> every remnant of the user from the system.  When you put the same user back in,
> he can be affected by old garbage.  I can't say this is for sure in Libranet,
> but I do know that it happens.  That's why a clean install is in order.  I doubt
> many of us have ever gotten everything right on the first try.  I would say
> three installations is about normal for every distribution I have ever tried.
> One thing is Linux is a lot easier to install than windows once you know what
> you are doing, and where you are going.


it lets me accessthe 'adminmenu' with the root password, i just cant login as root and i'm, for some reason, not alowd to use the 'startx' command when logged in as dennis