sudo is fine when you're in a terminal and so is the root terminal.

However tryintg to drag and drop files into my other Linuix partiton, I keep getting a permissions error. I also got one trying to clicking on an Opera.deb package to start the dpkg install. It kept asking for the non existant root password. Trying to key in the exact path is not easy for us n00bs.

It would be nice if you could start out as root and set your own password durring the F2 boot cheat codes option.