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5x00 General discussions / New, naive user

« on: August 14, 2003, 11:25:46 pm »

Thanks for all the help.

Indeed, typing \"/\" from the keyboard during the INIT 5 sequence got me a login: prompt.

Next:  What\'s the root password?  (It\'s the only user guaranteed to be there.)

Is it blank?  No.
Is it \"root\"?  \"Root\"?  \"admin\"? Any appropriate h4x0r spelling of anything obvious?  \"sharp\"?  \"zaurus\"?  \"5600\"? No, no, no.

It was indeed the passcode that you give on start-up.  (I never would have assumed that the default UI runs as root, but I guess it does.)  Besides, the passcode consists only of digits, yielding a pretty small dictionary.

Now,....  Where\'s the pipe-symbol?

Thanks again!

,Doug

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5x00 General discussions / New, naive user

« on: August 14, 2003, 12:20:16 pm »

Thanks very much.  The \"/\" does indeed get me a login: prompt.  That does, of course, leave open the question of a root password.

Does anyone know?

Thanks,

,Doug

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5x00 General discussions / New, naive user

« on: August 12, 2003, 10:14:50 pm »

Hi, all,

I\'ve just gotten my Zaurus SL-5600.  I bought it with the following [naive?] assumptions:

1)  My LINUX box (RH 9 on a Dell Inspiron 3200) would just recognize it.  It doesn\'t.
2)  I\'d actually have access to a login prompt.  (All the hints that I\'ve found on the web don\'t seem to apply.)

Can anyone help me overcome these problems.

Thanks in advance.

,Doug