> I have been messing with trying to get kde or gnome (?) up and
> running, and out of windows manager for awhile, but no one has been
> able to help me, so I decided to join the mailing list. I have
Have you considered reading a basic book about Linux? If you don't, I
fear you're headed towards a non-working system.
> This seems to be my solution, but being so new to Linux, I'm not
> quite sure how to "go to /etc and edit inittab". So obvoiusly the
cd /etc
vi inittab
Good luck. You didn't ask but I'd recommend you do a clean install
and set up X and KDE at that time.
Cheers --- Larry