redhat question from an linux-ignorant windows geek

[devilmaycry4187]

im new when it come to linux and this is my second time installing it (i had it before for about a week...) and anyway, i accidentally selected for it to login using a text based environment instead of the graphical login, i can log in but it just gives me a prompt... how do i get into the GUI and have it log me in through that from now on???

[jmtjet]

If I remember correctly it's either start X or X start. Hope this does it for you.

[devilmaycry4187]

yep! its "startx"

thanks!

[rami3]

Hi devilmaycry4187,

In order for your Redhat to boot into a GUI you are going to have to make a small change to the file /etc/innitab

First log on as root and then open the file /etc/innitab, look for the entry id:3:initdefault: and change the 3 to a 5.

The 5 specifies that at boot the system should boot into multi user graphical mode, 3 tells the system to boot into multi user text mode.

For more information click here.

Goodluck

RB

[ucklak]

Som other tips from the windows world:

Windows users knly know of 2 editors, notepad and edit (from DOS)

The easiest translation from Windows to Linux is gedit (from the gui environment)
and vi (for the text environment)

gedit is just like notepad except you have an added feature, tabbed properties (cool!)

vi is a little scary for the first timer so here are some commands:

to open a file
vi <filename> (just like edit <filename>)

to edit the open file
hit the insert key, you see INSERT highlighted
to stop editing, hit ESC

to save
:wq (write, quit)

[Ninurta]

It's "startx." On some systems, I'm told it's "xinit." I'm also thold that, depending on your desktop, "kde &", and "gnome &" also work.