Maybe I was just too harsh.
I spent like HOURS trying to work around that root thing, and just so I could edit the display file so I could get 1280x1024 instead of 1024x768. I even got it to go 1600x1200. Could not figure out how to do that without dropping to the command line as root.
I miss Corel Linux...
These "Live" disks are pretty cool in that you can just boot right to them without an install. Pretty convenient, after all.