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Topic: Username and password for the LiveCD [solved]

What is the username/password combo for the LiveCD? I've booted from HD mounted squashfs so isolinux configs do not apply. I get to the login screen and have tried crunchlinux/live (which someone suggested), also "crunchlinux" without password - no luck.

Would like to get past the login to see what CrunchBang is all about.  big_smile

Edit: Solved it by adding "live-config live-config.hostname=crunchbang live-config.username=crunchbang" to the kernel boot options. No login screen shown anymore.

Last edited by nomalab (2010-10-26 01:44:46)

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  • Registered: 2010-02-18
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Re: Username and password for the LiveCD [solved]

Username Crunchbang and password live have worked with my live OB #! edition on USB.
Matti Ollikainen

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Re: Username and password for the LiveCD [solved]

I tried that too (since it's case sensitive), but no luck. Corenominal suggested over at identi.ca "live/live" but no luck with that either. But, as I said, adding the live config stuff solved the problem. Now I sometimes get the login window, but in about 10 seconds the autologin kicks in (old and slow machine).

  • dubois
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Re: Username and password for the LiveCD [solved]

Edit: Solved it by adding "live-config live-config.hostname=crunchbang live-config.username=crunchbang" to the kernel boot options. No login screen shown anymore.

I'm glad that worked for you but there are some noobie-noobs like me who would never have come up with that solution even after extensive searching.  smile

My memory may not be like it once was but I was sure there must be a more simple answer.   

I double-checked this afternoon by logging in to my live copy of Statler 10 and verified that simply clicking <enter> worked real fine.  I'm posting this not to upstage your effort but to offer another, perhaps easier way to access the live disk.  smile

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
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Re: Username and password for the LiveCD [solved]

dubois wrote:

I double-checked this afternoon by logging in to my live copy of Statler 10 and verified that simply clicking <enter> worked real fine.  I'm posting this not to upstage your effort but to offer another, perhaps easier way to access the live disk.  smile

I'm sure it works, dubois, when booting with the LiveCD (as I understand you did - please correct me if I'm wrong). But please note that I mounted the kernel, initial RAM image and squashfs (compressed file system) directly from hard disk and bypassed the configuration files that usually would get read - hence my problems.

The  reason for doing this was quite simple: I had no empty CDs and since I live in the middle of nowhere, no way to buy them there and then. Eager to try Crunchbang I decided to try booting from a mounted ISO or kernel/initrd/sqashfs copied to a directory on hard disk - as I've done with many other distros when wanting to test without burning a CD.

After my initial (failed) try to get Crunchbang up and running I mounted the ISO again, dug around and found a config file where the "live-config live-config.hostname=crunchbang live-config.username=crunchbang" stanza gets set (plus some other settings, which I didn't care to include), so I decided to try adding those to kernel options in my Grub config. That did the trick, emulating (at least partly) the normal boot-from-cd situation.

BTW: I'm about to burn a CD soon, boot with it, look around, then hopefully install. I'm sure there'll be no problems with the login this time. big_smile

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Re: Username and password for the LiveCD [solved]

Yes, I read your post carefully but still didn't understand what or why you did what you did.  This

The  reason for doing this was quite simple: I had no empty CDs and since I live in the middle of nowhere, no way to buy them there and then. Eager to try Crunchbang I decided to try booting from a mounted ISO or kernel/initrd/sqashfs copied to a directory on hard disk - as I've done with many other distros when wanting to test without burning a CD.

explains it to me.  Hoping you didn't think me either rash or stupid but rather interested though unable to put my thoughts into words that day.  big_smile

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
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Re: Username and password for the LiveCD [solved]

No problem dubois, was just thinking about future generations reading this thread and wanted to make absolutely sure they understand my problem wasn't with the LiveCD per se, but due to special conditions. I should have been clearer in my initial post, but I guess I was suffering from low caffeine levels... wink

Lack of Ethernet and WLAN access (combined with limping CD drive and no way to boot from USB stick) means I have to get "creative" sometimes...