Ray,
I'm not sure what runlevel 4 is (or if it does anything at all).
But AFAIK, for xdm one needs runlevel 5.
Regards,
Kenneth
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> You want to run the "xdm" program. The best way to do this will depend on
> which Linux distribution you are using. In Slackware, for example, runlevel
> 4 initializes the system with xdm. So you'd change the line near the
> beginning of /etc/inittab that (on my system) reads:
>
> id:3:initdefault
>
> to read
>
> id:4:initdefault
>
> I would expect that your distribution of choice has some help either in the
> comments in /etc/inittab or somewhere in the rc* scripts (located either in
> /etc/rc.d/ or /sbin/rc.d/, depending on the distribution).
>
> Hope this helps. Good luck.
>
> At 11:31 PM 12/15/98 -0500, Robert M. Woods wrote:
> [deleted]
> >is there a way I can boot up Linux to a graphical
> >interface? For example, have a graphical login prompt rather than the
> >terminal line login prompt?? I would guess I would need to change the run
> >level of something, but what??
> [deleted]
>
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