[Virtualacorn-list] RISC OS 6 Installation Problem

[Alan Adams]

In message <5027778e31briancarroll at f2s.com>
          Brian Carroll <briancarroll at f2s.com> wrote:

> In article <c3b614f64f.chris at cumbrian.demon.co.uk>, Chris Hughes
> <chris at noonehere.co.uk> wrote:

> [Snip]

>> That did not work for me, what did work was the access
>> permissions for the user account (active directory rights).

>> I found that for some reason my user (I am supposedly the only
>> user account on this PC) was not giving me full permissions
>> on certain folders, on the C drive, once I modified those
>> rights it all worked.

I suspect Vista works the same as XP when installing. XP always 
creates an account called Administrator, for which it asks you to 
supply a password, then it asks for the name of one or more users, and 
insists on one. The first one is created as a member of the 
Administrators group, hence with admin rights to the computer.

The only time you get the chance to log in as Administrator is when in 
Safe Mode, usually after something has gone badly wrong, or if you 
turn off the welcome screen, allowing you to type in the username and 
password.

My suspicion is that Vista creates a similar user, but with less than 
full Admin rights. The username which does get full admin rights I 
expect to be Administrator, which won't be offered on the welcome 
screen.

> I found this posting I kept from last year.

> I have now got a good apparently stable installation of
> VRPC-AdjustSA and I'm considering whether to try installing RISC
> OS 6.xx from one of the unused single-machine CDs I bought at
> the last two Wakefield shows.  I'm not unaware of the hassles
> this might cause, having abandoned thoughts of installing on a
> real RiscPC, but I cannot see any help on the matter on the VA
> Forum.

> Could I have some advice whether RO6.14 is likely to be stable
> on my VRPC version, and how to sort out the user rights that
> Chris refers to above. [I too have a single user machine with no
> passwords or users set but no access to some root folders].

> Also, is it necessary to remove the 'Read only' restriction from
> HostFS::HardDisc4 , as Aaron recommends?


> Brian.



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