<-- just got back from setting up debconf5

The package issues are caused by one of the default sources being broken right now.

As for the root issue, its easily solved "sudo passwd root".

Even still there are certainly greater limitations to this distro than to a default debian install, having spoken to a couple of debians developers about the distro they seemed to like it, however still felt debain had the best setup (unsupprisingly lol). I will keep plugging away tommorrow when I have had some sleep, currently Ive been running for about 27 hours, things are a little blurry.. *shakes fist at debconf*