Logging on

5. Logging on

I will assume that you are logged on as a normal user and need specific root access for doing special commands that change the way your system behaves. This is generally good practice. It will also show clearly which commands need root privilege, since they will be prepended with the sudo command. The sudo command allows normal users to execute a command as the privileged root user.

First time log on

When the system is rebooted you will see that you can log in with the username and password you gave in the installation configuration. First time around the system will ask you for some defaults, which you can set to your lnkings. In screenshots and descriptions I will assume you have chosen the defaults.

It is recommended to check if everything has been installed as we wanted it to. One of the things we can check immediately is to see if everything has been mounted correctly. Again from the console

Code listing 5.1: Checking The Mounted Filesystem

kristof@knoppixbox:~/$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             9.2G  2.5G  6.3G  29% /
/dev/root.old         2.2M  341K  1.8M  16% /initrd
kristof@knoppixbox:~/$

The fact that the root.old partition is mounted is nothing to be worried about and is a consequence of the boot sequence as done by Knoppix.

Updated $LastChangedDate: 2004-11-05 23:24:59 +0100 (Fri, 05 Nov 2004) $

Kristof Van Landschoot
Author

Summary: If all went well you can now log on and check some things on your system.