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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
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At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:33:55 -0400 Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com> wrote:

> That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do
> is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab
> looked ok.
>
> I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME
> did return /root.
>
> If I do not make mistakes I will not learn.
>
> This is a great mailing list I am very gratefull for the response time and
> help I am getting out of it. Hope to return the favour to someone in this
> list in the future whom is making the same mistakes I am currently making.

We were all in your situation at some point.  Indeed, I felt most
comfortable with gentoo because of the great help on this list.

Good luck!

allan