Login: ?

If you are at the login screen with a choice of root or demo, demo password is demo and root password is root.

Wayne

It's iso 004.06. I'll try copying it to a partition and run it from there!

I was under the impression the os would load from the image/.iso I burned on the CD, but now I suspect I need to run it from the HDD. I'm being presented with a login Prompt, not a login screen. Anyways, I could only get the computer to boot from the CD once, even though the boot order in the bios is CD-ROM first. Thanks for your reply though.

Here's more info:

The last to lines in the boot sequence before the login: prompt are:

Starting K Desktop Manager: kdm

MEPIS Linux testing/unstable mepis1 tty1

Then comes -

login:

Using demo or root as passwords does nothing except return "incorrect login".

Nevermind folks, I figured it out. I just typed demo for both login and password. Dah!!! I'll get there yet!

I got past the login prompt only to see a command prompt. So apparently there is some hardware issue that's preventing the GUI to load. Since I'm not a programmer and have no experience with Linux (some DOS commands work, but I haven't the slightest idea how the file structure or attributes are like or what executable programs I could run. Typing dir at the prompt returns a few objects, what they are exactly I have no idea. They are obviously not directories or files. Apparently MEPIS is relatively new, so I suppose I should not be surprised by how small this forum is. I'll try poking around the knowledge base, if that doesn't help, I'll read most of the post here. I give this some time and effort, but it's not looking good. Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this or responds.