On 3/25/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lord Sauron wrote:
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> >
> >>Either they have a new bootloader or you mean grub. I have used Lilo
> >>and now use grub. IMHO, grub is better.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yes, I mean grub. I had a small technical difficulty : )
> >
> >
>
> For me, that would be not being able to type worth a hoot. My sig on
> the forums says I can't type good.
>
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >><snip>
> >>
> >>I hope some of this makes sense. I have been where you are now and it
> >>is a bit . . . . scary.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hmm... maybe not scary as much as being assaulted with too many new
> >things all at once. It makes it very hard to find where to dip your
> >toe into the larger pool of information.
> >
> >--
> >========== GCv3.12 ==========
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> >V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+
> > DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y
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> Weeeelllll, this Gentoo Linux. I can tell you that once you get Gentoo
> up and running, it is awesome. I have used Mandrake and it was OK until
> it came time to upgrade. It also didn't teach me much. Installing
> Gentoo taught me a lot. It takes time but it is worth it in the end.
You think it taught you a lot? You should see how much I've learned from it!
> There are also some good folks on here and the forums to help get you
> through. Just hope you like to search and read a lot. Forums are a
> great place to search.
Yeah, I got lots of good comments from others about how great the
Gentoo community was/is.
>
> Go here: www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/3196/5/ and read
> this section: "4.3. Configuring the kernel" That should help. That is
> a old guide for the older kernels but some of it still applies. That
> should help you a lot though.
Yeah, I did what you told me to do with the make install_whatevers and
then rebooted and I got what I think is vanilla X - no GDM, KDM, or
anything. It's sorta cool, 'cause they give you an xterm and nothing
else, but at the same time I want my KDE back.
Anyone know what to do here? init.d says has these things:
acpid crypto-loop gpm localmount pwcheck shutdown.sh
apmd cupsd halt.sh modules reboot.sh spamd
bootmisc depscan.sh hdparm net.eth0 reslisa sshd
checkfs distccd hostname net.lo rmnologin syslog-ng
checkroot domainname hotplug netmount rsyncd urandom
clock esound keymaps nscd runscript.sh vixie-cron
coldplug fand lisa numlock samba xdm
consolefont functions.sh local portmap sasauthd
I tried xdm restart, xdm start, and am about to try xdm stop to see if
I can get the normal GDM login screen (which will then start KDE -
yay!) However, I'm not sure what to do if that fails. I know that
there's a xinit something or other somewhere that I should put
startkde in, but I'm not sure where or what to do now. I learned
about xinit and startkde a long while ago on Debian when I didn't know
that hitting spacebar selects a checkbox. I ended up installing the
base Debian system - nothing extra. It was interesting, my first time
on Linux with nothing but me and the console. Luckily I managed to
beat my way through the problem after about a week.
> Hope that helps. Keep your chin up.
Yeah, don't worry - I don't stop until it's done. Thanks for your help!
--
========== GCv3.12 ==========
GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+
L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+
V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+
DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y
========= END GCv3.12 ========
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