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drpcken

Jan 10 2005, 04:17 AM

I can log in, but then it keeps me at a promt. New install also, can't remember the command to boot to the GUI

anyweb

Jan 10 2005, 08:24 AM

try

CODE

startx

cheers

anyweb

tomdkat

Feb 18 2005, 01:52 AM

QUOTE (anyweb @ Jan 10 2005, 12:24 AM)

try

CODE

startx

This works well. Additionally, if you want to have the machine boot into GUI "mode" all the time, read up on changing the default runlevel to the X11 runlevel (5 on most Linux distros I believe and 4 on Slackware) and when you boot your machine it will automagically go into GUI mode.

Peace...

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