Fedora 6 installation, root password...

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MooCow

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Well trying to attempt Linux again with Fedora 6 ZOD, and during installation it doesn't ask me to set the root password. So, obviously this is a problem, but knowing how Linux can be a POS half the time, this is no surprise (suspend also does not work but I'll worry about that later).

How can I set the root password in Fedora 6? I need the network configuration so I can get my wireless to work (Atheros chipset), which didn't work out of the box with Fedora. Do I need to boot into some recovery console and do the chroot /mnt/hda1 passwd root type thingy?

Also, why didn't Fedora 6 even prompt me to set the root password? I hear this is something Ubuntu does as well and its rather something that pisses people off.
 
"e" at grub, then "a", added word "single" to the line, pressed enter, passwd **** <-- my password.
 
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