root password setting unoffered at install

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 04 November 2007, Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
> Still, I'll learn to do it the Ubuntu way, or die
> trying. Everyone, told I was running WinXP, asked me
> not "why aren't you running Linux", but "why aren't
> you running Ubuntu", and it doesn't quite take a
> brick to the skull to get me to take a hint that
> broad.

To get a root password, 

sudo passwd root

supply your user password

then enter the new root password  and you're home free.

<I'm with you on the root thing.>