I finally got my pi up and flying. Love it. Used NOOBs to install raspbian and got the wifi to work on my modem router with little problem. So, I ssh in from my slackware box cuz it has a better keyboard/mouse and that's going well. The key to flawless install was formatting the SD disc with SD Formatter utility instead of a plain ol' Windows format on an XP machine.
I wanna install emacs and I want to do it as root, as I've never liked the sudo thing. My only problem is how to get super user from the xterm. I've searched the web for the default root password, but none of them work (Raspbian, Raspbme, etc.) Can I even do root via su? Or must I do root as a login shell? I typically use su - on my slack box. Oh, it's Raspbian from NOOBS_v1_2_1.
BTW, being new to debian, I've a lot to learn. I ran across one website talking about installing emacs and it sez: