thanks will see how that goes.. wasnt cutting gnome short at all i just didnt want to deal with all of the extra stuff i didnt need/use for now thats all... --Faith of God-- Where the walk with God never ends... www.faithofgod.us/peace.html voice: (810) 423-5982 email: andy at faithofgod.us Faith of God is (C) Copywright 2002 Faith of God Ministries All rights reserved. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <slingshooter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:18 AM Subject: Re:redhat and graphical logins > Hi, the best way for us to install is to choose the custom install option. > That way we can install what we wish and leave behind those applications > that we don't wish. However, don't sell Gnome short, gnopernicus is coming > along pretty well, and someday probably next year we will have access to > Gnome 2.0. > > As for obtaining a text login this can be done in two different ways. During > the installation there is a question that has many items on it such as > default desktop graphical desktop, gui or text login, etc. You could check > it there, and you would get a text login. > > Another option is if you are loading in x such as if you had installed X > Windows with Gnome you could do a alt+control+f1 to get to a text login, > login to your box, and open /etc/inittab in your favorite text editor, and > set it from run level 5 to run level 3. > > Naturally, if there is no X Windows you will get a run level 3 text login > by default. > Hth. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
