Im using a LFS 6.1 install and have KDE installed as per the BLFS book
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...e/kde/kde.html

At the moment Im booting to run level 3, I have to login and then startx.

How can I get all this to happen automatically? So when I turn the comp on I go all the way into KDE without having to do anything?

At the mo I have only got the root user, what happens when I have a normal user also? kdm seems to be a graphical login screen, but im not sure. Should I install kdm to allow me to choose which user I want to login as?

Many Thanks
Rik

Hi,

You should edit your inittab file and change it from runlevel 3 to 5. Its located at /etc/inittab

Kdm is a graphical login screen, and it will make you able to choose what user to login.

For LFS I dont know, but most distros wont allow root using a GUI. (security reasons).

Under all circumstances you will need a regular user account on your system. Using the root account for common use is not in any way recommended.

Good luck building it

Just curious: How long did it take you to get your system up and running with LFS?

Sincerely, Jorgen

I tried changing runlevel 3 to 5 in inittab but when it booted and got to the command line it just said it had entered runlevel 5 istead of 3. I also tried adding 5 to the grub menu.lst

Maybe I can use a GUI as root because I installed xorg and kde as root?

All in all, including fixing mistakes and even starting again on a few occassions it took me about a week.
The time the install went according to plan and booted it took about 12 hours.

As it is all compiled it depends on your comp though really. I think the compiling time for my comp was about 6 hours, so in theory I could probably do it in 7-8 hours.
Ive got a P4a 2ghz w/512mb DDR400.

BLFS all depends on what you want in your LFS "distro". xorg and kde are big though.

Ok, if start kdm from the command (before I startx) it goes to login screen which I have set to login automatically with the kdm options.

Its getting it to do the 'kdm' command automatically now.

Usually, the graphic subsystem (the display manager, or DM) is started up as one of the last items in the /etc/inittab file.

Exmples of DM's include KDM, XDM, and GDM.

If you cannot log-on graphically as root, it is because the display manager has been told not to allow it. This is a configuration-file option that you can change.

But... you might not want to. You know, plenty of things are easy to do in a graphical environment, and the computer will do anything that root commands it to do, without waiting for .. ..

You have been warned.

Do not establish the habit of logging in as root. This will eliminate pretty much all ofthe security of Linux.