HD Install :: How do HD install without the username prompt?

That is why I don't do regular hard drive installs.
This distro is fast moving with lots of improvements comming down the line.
Wait till you see the next version! oh my!

But here is what you might try to do:
Boot again off the cdrom. Become root. Mount the "root" partition of where you installed onto hard drive.

First to see the differences do this:
diff  /KNOPPIX/etc/inittab  /mnt/hda2/etc/inittab

Now you could edit in the changes or better yet copy it over by doing this:
cp /KNOPPIX/etc/inittab /mnt/hda2/etc/.

replacing hda2 with your actual partition, then reboot.

ok i figured a way around it in 0.6.2  anyways

make a bash script called autologon

#!/bin/bash
su - root -c "startx"


chmod 755 autologon

move it to /etc/init.d/

reboot and fluxbox will auto logon as root

you can change the logon to damnsmall if you are worried about security.


-Tomo

This worked for about 5 reboots now it doesnt

Is there anyway to get the machine to log on as root ?

I know its not the done thing but any help would be great