Beat my head against the wall with this one for far longer than I'd care to admit to.
"Just enter your username and password."
Linux social and communication skills. Ugh!
There's more than one username. There's more than one password.
Imagine that.
Turns out that the damn thing wanted my UPPERCASE username, which I created when I did the install on the hard drive I'm using on this headless HP EX487, which, of course, required me installing Amati 7.1 to a hard disk on a different machine, like with a monitor and everything, which, during that installation process, took *upper case* USERNAME, and then informed me that I would henceforth be *lower case* username on this hard disk. It also demanded a password, which I obediently provided, let the installation complete, did the reboot, and then I was given a nice prompt asking me for, you guessed it, my username and my password. To get into that, I had to give it my *lower case* username, and the password that I had just created during the hard disk installation on the "headed" machine.
And it all worked.
Just fine.
No problems.
I could log in, I could log out, I could log back in as root, I could do whatever I wanted to, using the nice white letters against the black screen.
Whoopty do!
Put the nice hard disk in to the nice EX487, wire the ethernet cable to the machine I'm talking to you from, and go to
http://hda/ and I am presented with the following:
"Amahi initialization"
At which point it all went to hell, and no body, and no thing, seemed to be able to help me.
Linux social and communication skills. Ugh!
I'm SURE it's all in there SOMEwhere, but really guys, why so obtuse about things? Why so arcane? Is it a game, or is it a tool? Are we here to win, or are we here to work?
Nevermind.
Guesswork is what finally won the day.
Nothing was ever found, and please note that word "FOUND," people, that was of any use at all.
In the end, what worked was the UPPERCASE username that I created during the original "headed" hard disk install, and a password from..... hold your breath now..... the Amahi page where I originally downloaded the disk image from, created my Amahi account on, and received my "Amahi install code" from.
INSANE!
Complete batshit insanity, compounded by an astounding closed-mouth approach to "helping" new people by giving them the old RTFM treatment in spades, no doubt accompanied by smirks and unheard laughter in the far distance somewhere.
The download of Amahi demanded, and got, a username and password.
The installation of Amahi LINUX on the hard disk demanded, and got, a username and password, and then went on to permit SUCCESSFUL login using the terminal, using the LOWER CASE username, and the password that was chosen during the initial hard disk install.
The "Amahi initialization" ONLY worked with, and you really gotta love this, the UPPER CASE username from the original hard disk installation, along with the password from the Amahi web page it all got downloaded from.
Does any of this make ANY sense?
Of course not.
Not one little bit of sense at all.
And it's not particularly guessable, but I'm kind of OCD about things, and I WILL keep at it, long after more sane individuals have wisely determined that it's all a Big Funny Game with oodles and oodles of laughter and hi-jinx for everyone except for the poor schlub that's attempting to use this stuff as a TOOL, to get a job done.
Maybe somebody out there will stumble across this in their efforts to Google to the bottom of the matter, when they too are presented with the incomprehensible array of completely unnecessary rubbish and difficulty that I had to endure to gain entry into the hallowed halls of yet another Linux Labyrinth of Doom.
Maybe.
So, dear mods, or whoever the hell might be in charge of this, go slow, go easy, when it comes to deleting my rant. The rant is here for a purpose. The rant is there to help the uninitiated, to help the unwary.
But of course, I'm sure all the previous rants were all defaced and deleted too, which is why there was nothing there for me to find when it became my turn to endure this.
Go ahead.
Wipe it all.
It's great fun, isn't it?