On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 08:00 +0800, Harish Pillay wrote: > > Try this > > > > Log into your system as root and do the following: > > > > The following makes a backup first, in case we make any errors > > # cp -a /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.original > > > > Now we change the file > > # sed -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:initdefault:@id:5:initdefault:@g > > /etc/inittab > > > > Now we check and make sure > > # cat /etc/inittab | grep id | grep initdefault > > > > You should see a line something like the following > > id:5:initdefault: > > > > That should be fine. > > > > Once you reboot your machine, it should come up with GDM instead > > of the command line. > > Just picking a nit, you do not need to reboot just to go to level 5 > - we are running windoze after all. From the same command prompt > above, just type: > # init 5 > and you will go into initlevel 5 and start the graphical login process. > > Harish
LOL - understand - probably when initiating the reply, my main concern was to be able to start up in runlevel 5 on its own :P _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
