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'Un petit pas pour l'homme mais un pas de géant pour l'humanité'...This is what i said to myself when i installed Linux, Hardy Heron on the Office PC.
Hard to leave 14 years of a using Windows, it all started with Windows 3.1 on a 386 SX with 4 MB RAM, in 1994...and DOS-Shell...... Those were the days!
I already had a dual boot Vista-Linux on my Laptop, then i was so happy with it that i said to myself, that i might get more used to Linux if I used it in office, so i got a copy and off i went! Linux ready!
I had a little issue though, i have put the hostname 'Gavin' for my computer and then i sad to myself that i might change it to a funnier name, my friends had called their terminals Sugarbabe, Honey, Sexy... so i wanted to change the hostname to Pixie-Doux!
with the help of the owner of Sexy and Honey, i looked for the command to change the hostname, we came up with a sudo command...hummmm!! sudo, for once i am using it:
courtesy: http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/09/03/sudo-make-me-a-sandwich/
So i typed:
sudo hostname Pixie-Doux
It seemed to work fine, but when i rebooted the PC, and tried
hostname
It gave me the old name, i.e Gavin, i tried something more radical, by trying to change the hostname file from the folder /etc/hostname by writing
sudo vi /etc/hostname
However, i think i had done something wrong, I even tried to change it as any 'Normal' person would, i.e System settings->Network Settings....
Then i did something wrong...but I do not know what, All the sudo commands I was typing were not getting executed, they were giving me the 'unable to resolve host Pixie-Doux' error message, neither were any changes i was trying to do from the administrator login.
Worse still 'amateur comme je suis', i did not have a root login on the system to login and revert to the previous hostname...quelle stupidité.
The owner of Sugarbabe then kindly advised me to have a root user created as soon as the problem was sorted....
It was time to call Dr Scheme, and as soon as i told him i needed some help in Linux, his reply was 'Ki zafaire tone faire foiré encore la?'
Anyways, la fin justifie les moyensm he booted the pc using the CD, then used some Hocus Pocus Commands at the console, and badaBoom! Everything was operational!
Then i quickly applied Zetwal's advice and created the root account by typing:
sudo passwd root
Can't wait to experiment more on linux! I have found the long lost pleasure of using commands!
Pas conner ki mo pou casser encore lor Linux...anyways, I learnt many things my breaking other things.....lol!
Gavin!
