Fedora 9 Help: Its asking for an unknown username and pass


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I gave up on Ubuntu, so I tried Fedora 9, however its asking for a username and password on a clean harddrive. no matter what I enter, it rejects it. What do I do?

PS. I tried going interactive, however, the installation just ignores my selection and goes into a text based installation.

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You created a user account when you installed. It is probably this account that is being asked for.

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I actually didnt... the requirement for the login information comes right after all the text that sais "Loading [something]..... [OK]". Like its maybe 1min after the "non-interactive" setup first starts.

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Is this a Live CD, or an install one? Can you point me to exactly what image you downloaded?

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Its a live cd. I tried root, puts me into this menu, but then I dunno what to do. I click on this "X" and run an get a message saying that I need to install a clean installation.

Note: I tried downloading the install media from the Fedora website, except I get a message saying "page cannot be found", and I dont do torrent downloads cause I have no experience in torrents, last time I tried, my computer messed up.

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Its a live cd. I tried root, puts me into this menu, but then I dunno what to do. I click on this "X" and run an get a message saying that I need to install a clean installation.

Note: I tried downloading the install media from the Fedora website, except I get a message saying "page cannot be found", and I dont do torrent downloads cause I have no experience in torrents, last time I tried, my computer messed up.

That's odd because I am able to start downloading the ISO images: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

If that doesn't work, try downloading it from one of the mirrors located at:

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9/

Don't forget to verify the ISO before burning it:

http://fedoraproject.org/en/verify

If your using Windows to burn the ISO you can use a shell extension like CyoHash to compute SHA1/MD5 hashes, then compare them to the hashes on the above link.

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