Installed without the usual menus. Now I can't log in

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Published on 2012-11-27T16:49:30Z Indexed on 2012/11/27 17:20 UTC
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I tried to install from CD. The computer wouldn't boot from the CD, so I clicked on the 'boot helper', and rebooted the machine. And the first thing I see is do I want to open Windows or Ubuntu (without it asking me whether I wanted to install it alongside Windows or replace it), and when I click on Ubuntu, after a very long time, I finally get a login screen. But I don't have a login, because I never set one up. Help!

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