Hi, all,
I use Slakware, and I'm positive runlevel 4 is for xdm...
Have fun,
bogdan
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Kenneth Stephen wrote:
> Ray,
>
> I'm not sure what runlevel 4 is (or if it does anything at all).
> But AFAIK, for xdm one needs runlevel 5.
>
> Regards,
> Kenneth
>
> There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
>
> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> > You want to run the "xdm" program. The best way to do this will depend on
> > which Linux distribution you are using. In Slackware, for example, runlevel
> > 4 initializes the system with xdm. So you'd change the line near the
> > beginning of /etc/inittab that (on my system) reads:
> >
> > id:3:initdefault
> >
> > to read
> >
> > id:4:initdefault
> >
> > I would expect that your distribution of choice has some help either in the
> > comments in /etc/inittab or somewhere in the rc* scripts (located either in
> > /etc/rc.d/ or /sbin/rc.d/, depending on the distribution).
> >
> > Hope this helps. Good luck.
> >
> > At 11:31 PM 12/15/98 -0500, Robert M. Woods wrote:
> > [deleted]
> > >is there a way I can boot up Linux to a graphical
> > >interface? For example, have a graphical login prompt rather than the
> > >terminal line login prompt?? I would guess I would need to change the run
> > >level of something, but what??
> > [deleted]
> >
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