[Sheflug - Sheffield Linux User's Group] Re: newbie needs help/java

[Ross <nospam [at] ntlworld.com>]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > So next question. When I installed suse 6.4 I had to do so using (old
> Yast) as
> > my pc will not boot from cd, so I ended up with a text based login
> (bash??) I
> > have to enter "startx" in order to get to KDE. I would prefer a graphical
> login
> > if poss but not too bothered about that, my problem is doing a logout. I
> logout
> > of kde which gets me back to the command line. I have tried "logout/exit"
> ect
> > ect ect  but whenever I reboot I get the message "/dev/hda6 not unmounted
> > properly" so how do I shutdown correctly.
> 
> Usually, if you're using XF86Setup to configure X-Windows, it make your PC
> boot to graphical mode automatically. However, you can do this by hand - the
> file /etc/inittab contains the 'default run level'. At the moment, this will
> be set to '2' (the first number on the line), I think for a graphical boot
> it should be three on SuSE (it varies from distribution to distribution).


it's quite easy with 'Yast' to configure the logon to be graphical. start
'yast' goto system admin then goto configure logon. select graphical and that's
it :-)  you may get a warning message about your pc not being able to boot if x
isn't configured correcrly but, since you use kde with startx it should all run
ok. this will also sort out the problem of shuting down incorrectly as when you
logout of kde, you will have a graphical option to shutdown or reboot (or
restart x?)


 Thanks,
        Ross
               ross.h [at] ntlworld.com
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