navynos root
 

i have just installed navynos which is based on gentoo iemerged kde and are now running it. As i boot up linux i get a root prompt and i can only run startx command as root how can i change this.
ps. i am fairly new to linux

how do you mean you can only run it as root? what happens if you log in as a normal user?

if you mean you want a graphical login, then you need to add xdm to the default run leve. i can never be sre of the syntax but i think its "rc-update add xdm default" if that's wrong, then just running "rc-update" will give you an example.

cheers for that. next question how do i get xdm to run kde by default as it runs xwin at the moment

i now have the problem i have to start kde from xwindows and i end up with xwin boarders around everything how do i get xdm to boot kde automatically

In there, at the bottom of the file is a section where you can add:
XSESSION="kde-3.3.1"
This will then boot KDE by default

Add yourself a user (Not a good idea to stay root) with:
useradd graeme -m -G users,audio,wheel,games,portage -s /bin/bash
passwd graeme
passwd root


Chill.