** Reply to message from Hugo <hg.list@gmail.com> on Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:54:42 +0200
No room (old computer, small HD). I was able to get it (by juggling the FTP installation sources on and off and changing their order) to start update. But it didn't go as planned. For 4 hours it did download a lot of stuff and install it. After that I rebooted and was greeted with the new Novel splash. But after that... no X! Only command line :-( Now I'm stuck there. I even tried to update (from text yast) the system to minimum 9.2 system with KDE. Again some installation happened. But still, the X doesn't start.
I am that much Linux newbie that only thing left for me is to download the ISO for the CD1 at another computer and then do a clean installation of that. It was never a good option to try to update windows versions... I guess I should have known this. (Although, with SuSE one has to update always as the older versions are not supported - one point where MS is still ahead.) I'll try to get the CD some time next week. Before that I'm stuck with Win2K (dual boot).
When you get the command prompt, login as root. Try "init 5", and X will start and go to either kdm or gdm, whichever one you have set up. CTL-ALT-F1 should bring you back to the same console to look for error messages. I X did indeed start and the graphical login screen appeared, edit /etc/inittab. Change line 20 from "id:3:initdefault:" to "id:5:initdefault:" This sets the default runlevel to 5--the graphical one. Or, the next boot, at the command line, type WINDOWMANAGER=kde startx, and kde should start. Otherwise, if X still will not start, do as you originally proposed. Good luck. Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a