need help installing pclinuxos

okay heres what i did

i put the live cd in the drive booted my system and it entered the installer

when the cd came up i selected live cd and i saw a progress bar, when the progress bar was complete the nvidia logo came up (the brand of my video card)

this is where my problem came, after the nvidia logo dissapeared a blue screen came up with small white text asking me for localhost login what is the login mame and password

 

In a liveCD environment you generally login with username:root password:root

 

THANKS MAN

if this works then my hat goes off to you grease monkey if it doesn't then i might try another distro

already tried installing ubuntu and after all the text stuff went away the screen went black

i might not try to install it again but thanks i think this distro is the one i'll be chatting on skype and playing frets on fire in no time

just so i can make it clear to myself is what i am doing as explained above going to install it on my hd

 

Look in the repositories for a program called ENVY. It will help install the best driver for your system.

 

running the LiveCD will boot you into the OS off the CD, It won't install to the hard drive till you ask it to.
Most liveCD's I've used will have a link on the desktop that you must click on to install. This will start a wizard that will guide you through it.

If, after entering the username / password you are stuck at the command line with no desktop you may need to manually start the windows manager.

I think this should do it:

Code:

startx &

I highly recommend reading some of the info here:
http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/index.html
It will help with alot of the basics

 

i tried the login passwords that you gave me and they didn't work it just kept asking me for the password any clue as to what is going on

and when i inserted the live cd is gave me a couple choices which one to i select to install pclinux and not just view it to try it out

 

Did you set up a user name and password and did you set a root pw in PCLOS?

 

how do i do that?

 

if you are using the live cd then i belive that the username is

guest

and the password is

guest

to access root through a terminal its root and root

 

i guess i'll try the guest one greasemonkey suggested that i try the root one but didn't work maybe this one will but if i can't get it to work i'll try installing ubuntu or move on to slax (puppy is my final attempt)

 

i am also looking for an explanation as to why the screen goes black when i try to install ubuntu i think my video card reconizes a higher video resolution i recieved the system with a much larger monitor than what i am using right now but i don't think thats the problem

 

never mind about ubuntu i just installed pclinuxos 2009 successfully but i am having trouble installing skype (how do i install skype on this can you type out or show me an instruction manual i am new to linux so pardon all the newbie questions)

btw this goes faster than i ever had with windows

 

skype should be found within the Package Manager aka Synaptic.

 

http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=58


this link will help you

 

In the toolbar at the bottom of the screen there is an S shaped Icon, red on top, black on bottom. Click on it and you will be prompted for the root password, no internet use in root please. Enter the password, OK, and the Synaptic package manager will open. In the tool bar click Reload. This will check the Repository for any updated packages. Try to use only one Repository at a time, I am currently using the indiana.edu one. To view the list of repositories click Settings. Skype has four listings at the moment, one is a recorder. Component listing is nonfree, version is 2.0.0.72-3. Have you enabled shorewall, firewall? You can do that through the Administration Center, Security. Root password required as a user for that one too.