What is password of administrator (user root)?

For security reasons, there is no default root password.  Setting it to well known default value would create very dangerous situation for your computer and network security.

Ways to change root password:

• click on root icon instead of waiting few seconds for automated login of default user (danix). No need to enter password - just press enter or doubleclick on user "root" to login as root. Now you have all rights to setup or delete everything.
• In konsole or xterm (graphical shell console) type: 'sudo passwd root' to change password for user root, or 'sudo sux' to become user root (in the terminal console).
• Login as user root (password is not needed) on text console. Change password by running 'passwd root'.
  

How do I install applications?

For beginners there is synaptic, advanced users might want to use aptitude or apt-get.

How to use synaptic

You can start it from menu, (K-> System -> synaptic).
Click once on 'Reload' button, select applications for installing and press 'Apply' button, it will start installing selected software.

Synaptic may be missing in some Danix versions, so if its not available in system menu, install it using this command:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install synaptic

How to make my changes pernament?

Create Danix module on some of your partitions where Linux can write. NTFS partitions are not supported for now, but ext3, ext2, vfat or reiserfs, reiser4 or xfs partitions are supported.
Howto create Danix module? During boot you will see a message "press [enter] in next X seconds to get into Menu". So press enter, select 5) manage modules and 3) create module.
You will be asked where to store the module, so select some supported partition. It will not be formatted, all changes will be done only in 'danix' directory inside the selected disk partition.
Questions about name and size should be easy. When asked about "select module to depend on" you will have to select some other danix module, probably from cd/dvd device. Good answer is usually to depend on kde or gnome or desktop, but you can also select kdebase, which will have smaller set of applications to start with.
You will wait few seconds and new module is prepared.

After reboot select your module for booting by boot parameter mod=YourModuleName If you want to reconfigure all hardware, use also option reconfig.
If YourModuleName could be opened for writing, all changes you will do  as an user will be stored into that module and will be there after reboot.

Howto install DANIX on Harddisk?

Use danix-installer in DANIX menu. You will need to have ONE WHOLE DISK, which will be repartitioned and DANIX will be installed. Installation is very easy, the only thing needed from user is to correctly identify disk which will be used. Installation is still very verbose, dont get distracted by displayed messages. Verbosity will be removed in next version.

How to Install DANIX on USB flashdisk?

Use DANIX USB installer in DANIX menu. For now, only flashdisks up to 1 GB are supported fully. You will have to choose danix modules you want to have on Flashdisk. It will be formatted in a way that simulates ZIP drive, which is a way to boot in most machines. If you PC will not boot from USB, check bios setup, you might have to use 'legacy' usb support. DANIX can boot from usb flashdisk and continue using modules residing on any readable media. So you might want to copy some modules from dvd to harddisk (into directory danix/modules on a disk partititon).

What is DANIX-VPN?

Its a way to create virtual network, so your pc might be accessible from danix servers, even if its behind NAT router. It is now only experimental. If you are using LinuxPlus DANIX version there is a bug in vpn config file. To make it useable, edit config file (sudo kate /usr/share/danix-vpn/danix.conf) and remove line 9 which contains 'remote-cert-tls server'. Then it will work, running danix-vpn will create virtual tun interface accessible from Danix servers.

Problem with apt-get update in version 2006-09-09?

If your apt-get update results in error like:

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

Its because we didnt expect Debian to grow so fast.
Please edit  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10limit  and increase the number, for example to:

APT::Cache-Limit "18388608";

It is corrected in next DANIX version.