On Friday 05 September 2003 18:12, Joshua Banks wrote: > > > #USE="bindist" emerge -k xfree (This was off CD1) > > > > > > After the reboot and login I did a > > > > > > #US="bindist" emerge -k kde (This was off CD2) > > > > > > CD2 has a ton of apps. > > Gentoo is very new to me. > > Coming from Mandrake9.0. Where everything is basically done for you. I > think that everything is automounted as well?. Am I going to have to mount > everything to get stuff working the way that I would like...I..E...KDE > desktop...If so is there some directions on how this done? > > All that I have available currently is the command line. And I'm not sure > how to start programs from the commandline. E..G...I thought that I loaded > XFree which I thought was the base package needed as a base before loading > any other desktops or gui things like KDE and such? Please help me > understand this..:) > > Or can I just start KDE without the use of XFee? What are the commands to > do this? > > I su to root and try to startx from the root / directory: > #startx > command not found > > When I look at the installed packages (emerge -cp world | more) I don't see > xfee on the list which is strange because I know that it loaded it when I > was doing the intial install on CD1 from issuing: > #USE="bindist" emerge -k xfree (This was off CD1) > > There's definitely allot of KDE packages though. > > > > > Again this all way new to me. No problem though :) I'm learning a ton. This > is how I should've started linux in the first place. > > What I would preferably like to do is everytime that I login have a KDE > desktop and not have to tell linux to mount this or that to look at the > file system or load a cd or anything. I really don't understand why this is > needed or how I would get things to automount at bootup. Or is this > something that I want happening...Again I'm new so I don't have much of a > clue what I'm talking about. Just trying to convey what I'm trying to do. > > Thanks everyone. > > JBanks > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
I strongly reccomend the book "Running Linux" from O'Reilly presses. (ISBN: 0-596-00272-6). It was a huge help to me when I switched away from Mandrake 9.0 about a year ago. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
