Hi,

I'm in progress of emerging my family from Slackware to Debian Sarge and have experienced some problem with the boot loader, due to lack of experience and/or know how.

In order to have a consistent system in my household we are changing on four (4) boxes.

The problem is that I want to be able to start in run-level 3 and select the X-manager. Please advice the command in Debian, I have tried xwmconfig with no succes?

An example is the selection option at installation:

gdm
xdm

wich one should be used?

Best regards
/tungsten

I believe it should be xdm. X Display Manager, instead of the Gnome Display Manager.

You are right CBlue!! Thanks for your advice.

Do you know the command to select X-manager as well ?

/tungsten

I forgot. When I was installing Gentoo, I had to do alot of configuring, like the xserver stuff. But I forgot all the commands that I had to use. I'll look it up for you or someone else on this forum probably knows the answer to this.

dpkg-reconfigure xdm... will bring up a dialogue asking which dm to use.

Thanks for the help CBlue & geekzen

/tungsten

You're welcome! Hope it works out for you!

for starting in runlevel 3 change /etc/inittab (it's in the beginning of the file). Really nice thing, I'm also using runlevel 3, and modified runlevel 2 to be text-mode

I have to admit that I have some serious problems to install Debian and making it working my way. My way is that I want:

1 Debian start up in runlevel 3

2 I want be able to select X-manager for different purposes i.e:
- KDE for root
- XFce for my self as user
- Gnome Junior for my kids

But it looks like (or at least I feel like) I make some faults at setup but I can't figure out what.

The problem is that I can logg in as user but not root at the GRUB manual when I start in run level 4

Some sugestions how to proceed?

/tungsten

So, you cant log in via X/K/GDM under root? I belive X/GDM by default disallows root from logging in. I dont know about KDM.

Yes the problem is to logg in as root in the GDM (Gnome Display Manager).

How is the maintenace intented to be done?

Should I first go in as ordinary user and the becomme super user?

/tungsten

You don't need to log in as root in order to do root duties, super user works for most everything. But in Gnome there may be a login manager link and that link allows you to unhide root as a user in the login menu. But you may be able to just type root and the root password and get in that way through the gdm. I think root is only hidden and not denied at the login menu.

OK

Thanks, I will give it one more try.

/tungsten

For GDM there's a configuration GUI that can be invoked (as root) with 'gdmsetup' command. You can also manually edit the configuration file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf.

I was about to suggest that: GDM setup has a security tab that can change this setting.