[NTLUG:Discuss] Slackware and Ximian Gnome

Patrick Parks patrick at patrickparks.com
Tue Sep 10 03:02:02 CDT 2002


Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me no logon prompt, it is the session that X is
running from, thre are no other terminals to log into.



On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 02:54, David Stanaway wrote:
> Did you try my earlier suggestion of running the installer with xinit as
> root?
> 
> 
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 , login as root
> 
> lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ > install-ximian.sh
> chmod 755 install-ximian.sh
> xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e $PWD/install-ximian.sh -- :1
> 
> (Okay, so this is a slight variation on my previous suggestion.. having
> seen that it isn't wholey a graphical based installer)
> 
> ximian doesn't install on my system so I can't test past the beginning.
> 
> (I have debian/sid on powerpc hardware)
> 
> -- 
> David Stanaway
> 
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