[NTLUG:Discuss] Slackware and Ximian Gnome

[David Stanaway]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 03:02, Patrick Parks wrote:
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me no logon prompt, it is the session that X is
> running from, thre are no other terminals to log into.

That is bizzare.  remind me not to try slackware :P

You don't actually need to do that from a getty, you can run xinit from
any root shell

eg: in an xterm:
su -
# .... the rest.



> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 02:54, David Stanaway wrote:
> > Did you try my earlier suggestion of running the installer with xinit as
> > root?
> > 
> > 
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1 , login as root
> > 
> > lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ > install-ximian.sh
> > chmod 755 install-ximian.sh
> > xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e $PWD/install-ximian.sh -- :1
> > 
> > (Okay, so this is a slight variation on my previous suggestion.. having
> > seen that it isn't wholey a graphical based installer)
> > 
> > ximian doesn't install on my system so I can't test past the beginning.
> > 
> > (I have debian/sid on powerpc hardware)
> > 
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