Yes to all of your questions. It did not ask for a new user account. I did it in a virtual machine. VMware Workstation 8

On 04/11/2012 07:29 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
On 04/11/2012 09:08 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17 looking for when it
boots up and ask for localhost login. Everything I have tried has
failed. Please help.
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Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.



I'm assuming you are using the latest RC of F17? Sounds to me like you didn't name the system you installed it on, so it defaulted to 'localhost'.  When you installed, did it not ask to add a new user account?

Have you tried logging in with root?



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Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.