Thank you for this. I did give this an attempt, I didn’t find the manual partitioning. I found an option to create a new partition table, I don’t think I was in the right spot. I couldn’t figure out how to configure the one partition just for boot, and what to select on the drop down menu. “Physical encryption volume?”

I think I’ll just create an encrypted folder until hopefully a fix is made for the installer.

Thanks everyone I was finally able to change my root password after a reformat.

So if I boot into recovery mode, and it does end up asking me for a password again, does that imply a bad actor has changed my root password? If that’s the case, will a fresh install solve my problem?

I’m very new to linux so I’m not really sure what best practices you should follow after an install. Should you immediately change your root password and install a firewall, first steps taken?

It just says “Sorry, try again” after a failed attempt to enter the sudo password.

I am certain I am inputting the same password that I am using for authentication during login. Certain in the sense that I have triple checked that I am typing the correct keys on my laptop keyboard, and the password only contains lower case letters.

In terms of keyboard layout, I have confirmed I am using US. Is there a different password specific for sudo that I am missing here? I’ve never set the password for root, since this requires the use of sudo and I’ve never been able to access sudo.