On Fri, 4 May 2012, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 01:39:31AM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: >> On May 4, 2012, at 1:07 AM, Florin Iucha wrote: >>> On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:03:35PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: >>>> I guess that would be all I need. I'll bet it gives me root permissions >>>> so that I don't have to type "sudo" before every command. >>> >>> 'sudo screen' ? >> >> That does, though, defeat the purpose of sudo. > > Of course. But this is what Mike sort of asked for. Right, because we are talking about prepping the HDD for an Ubuntu installation from within a Live CD session, so the usual worries do not apply. In fact, funny thing, it's hard to get used to the fact that the changes you make to the Ubuntu system within the Live CD session are not really changes at all. For example, you could do "sudo rm -rf /" and it wouldn't matter. Mike