Hey! Did you see what Richard Adams wrote on Jul 30 ?
RA> >
RA> > Hey! Did you see what [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Jul 29 ?
RA> >
RA> > > I edited my inittab file last night and made the default runlevel 5.
RA> > > This should (or so I've read) boot me into X. Unfortunately I still
RA> > > get a text based system. As it boots I see "setting runlevel 5" then
RA> > > it says going multiuser and ... nothing.
RA> >
RA> > I just had a look at /etc/inittab and it would seem that runlevel "4" is
RA> > to boot straight to X.
RA> >
RA> > So you would change this line in /etc/inittab...
RA> > id:3:initdefault:
RA> > To...
RA> > id:4:initdefault:
RA> >
RA> > And you should be set.
RA>
RA> Thats not correct for all Linux systems, i can only speak for Redhat and
RA> slackware, Redhat is 5 but Slackware is 4.
I wasn't aware of that, but it doesn't surprise me though (RedHat does a
lot of things differently).
In this case though, because he had changed his default run level from 3
to 5 and it didn't work, then it's probably a safe bet that he is running
Slackware (or at least something similar).
Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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