login doesnt work on 3.0 live cd

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jamesjames

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Hi everyone,
I'm just trying to get a live cd booting on a laptop with 128mb of RAM
just so you know i'm a total noob to linux, been using mac for over 10 years and amiga b4 that

ive got the cd burnt, it boots but gets to a point when it asks for a user log in name then a password
this isnt a gui looking thing, its white text on a black screen, command prompt like.

ive tried a number of user names and passwords but it always tells me that the user name is incorrect

ive tried user - tux, hacker, root, user
with no password and also root and the above user names in all combinations

any suggestions?

Posted 12 years ago #
Trixar_za

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You need atleast 160MB of RAM to boot the normal 3.0 LiveCD, which is probably why it's not working. This means you rather should try the loram flavor that uses a little less RAM to boot off a CD. You can find it @ http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/stable/flavors/ - note it's just the default LiveCD has such a high memory requirement, but once installed it barely uses 30MB RAM to run idle and boot.

Posted 12 years ago #
jamesjames

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Thanks, downloaded the loram flavour, all working for now
thanks a bunch!

Posted 12 years ago #

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