On Wednesday 12 August 2015 19:16:22 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> I don't remember ever being offered that option when I installed.  Nor a
> few other things that I was used to,  like being able to configure my
> network as opposed to the installation just using DHCP because it found
> DHCP on the network.   :-(
>
> Where is this option available?  Or was I supposed to install with some
> specific invocation that I missed?

It is a question asked during the install. 

As far as I can remember, having a root log-in is default, but you are offered 
the chance to refuse.  But I have only installed Jessie twice, so may be 
misremebering it, because that is certainly what happens in Wheezy.  But I 
certainly had no problem installing with root.

How, with what, and with what .iso, did you install?

Lisi