Excellent! But so you know and other newbies as well: If you see a localhost login prompt, your installation is most likely complete, but the run level is not 5 (X graphic interface), and usually will be 3 (network, no X), as it happened in your case. What default run level the machine boots on, is configured in /etc/inittab. Look for the line containing initdefault, it has a number of very clear comments, so you can change a single number and reboot. Running the 'init' command is normally used for temporary run level changes, not for setting the default. Besides it would be inconvenient having to become root every time.
Even with run level 3, you could login as root -or any other user- and try executing startx from the system prompt. The graphic desktop you have selected should come up, with the account already logged in. If, as it happened with Fedora, it cannot find the support for the graphics card, then you can still go and try to fix the configuration file for X, which would be somewhere around /etc/X11 (xorg.conf, I think). Before you do this you should have your hardware specs, particularly your monitor. But these modifications go beyond the scope of this brief explanation :-) As for creating other non-root users: login as root and simply try the following to create user 'bob': adduser bob passwd bob Now user bob can login into the system. Gerardo Juarez On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Bob Salsburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 22:09 -0400, Bob Salsburg wrote: >> day-to-day work is Windows and Macintosh. > > Belay that last question. Yellow Dog fixed it for me! > > Ran init 5 after logging in as root, Yellow Dog did an analysis and > asked if I wanted it to try and fix the problem. It did and so far > things look good > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
