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Old 03-16-2006, 07:18 PM   #1
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help with newly installed slackware 10.2!!!!!


i finally managed to get slackware installed (put bootloader in wrong part.) and now when i click slackware to boot up it loads and all i get is a command dialogue screen. it asks me to login and i do as root and then it says i have two message which are jsut help files for installing hardware. how do i get into the kde destop?
thanks in advance
adam
 
Old 03-16-2006, 07:51 PM   #2
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Interesting.........I saw this post elsewhere.........

Try:

startx
 
Old 03-16-2006, 07:58 PM   #3
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To start kdm at bootup, just edit /etc/inittab and change id:3:initdefault: to id:4:initdefault: .
 
Old 03-17-2006, 02:25 AM   #4
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You might want to:
Code:
#xorgconfig
first.
 
  


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