Re: FW: Installation problems.

[Kent Perrier <kent perrier pgs com>]

"Coley, James" wrote:
> 
> First off I'd like to thank those of you who responded to me yesterday with
> suggestions on my bad install.  I tried a few things and finally decided a
> reload would be easier.  I've just finished a fresh install of Redhat 5.2
> and Gnome 1.0 for i386.  On the first execution, I'm looking at the Gnome
> desktop (!).  However, I've got a warning message that reads "You are
> running the GNOME Midnight Commander as root.  You will not be protected
> from severly damaging your system if you continue."  As I recall, this is
> the same message that appeared during my first install, and sure enough, I
> serverly damaged my system and didn't see Gnome after the first execution.
> What now?

Don't run Midnight Commander as root?

Kent
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