I have a used Lenovo R61 ThinkPad whose sole reason for
existing is to host multiple repeated experimental installs
of *nix. Debian is my current target. It has a Windows Vista
install which I'm leaving untouched (used gparted iso to
shrink its partition to half of hard disk).
My routine is to use gparted to delete whatever partition
the previous Debian install was on and let subsequent
install "use all free space". As I only have dialup at home
all installs requiring internet access are done using WiFi
hotspot at local library. The netinst and LiveCD iso's were
downloaded from the Debian site and MD5's verified.
Problem 1. With recent installs, neither netinst nor LiveCD
could access the internet DURING the install. If I complete
the install from the LiveCD having chosen "do not configure
network", it has *NO* problem connecting to the internet.
What CLI tool can I use to attempt to connect to the Wifi
hot spot?
Problem 2. On recent installs from liveCD, my root password
is not being recognized. When this showed up I explicitly
chose not to use the shadow password option so that I would
be able to examine the passwords. But how do I access/change
the password?
NOTE: In previous iterations, using the same physical CD's
and laptop, I've done installs with no glitches.
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