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<P><FONT SIZE=2>So my next question would be how would i go about figuring out the minimum daemons i would need to get networking and x server running. Sorry im not trying to get someone to spoonfeed me I tried googling but i think i don't understand linux under the hood enough yet to know what to search for even.<BR>
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Matt<BR>
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From: Josh More [<A HREF="mailto:morej@alliancetechnologies.net">mailto:morej@alliancetechnologies.net</A>]<BR>
Sent: Wed 11/4/2009 8:28 AM<BR>
To: cialug@cialug.org; Mathew R. Phillips<BR>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] X server<BR>
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Under SUSE, you just configure runlevel 4 to do what you want. Then, at<BR>
the default boot screen, you add "4" to the kernel options and it does<BR>
what you want. You could go all out and create a GRUB menu option, but<BR>
I've never bothered.<BR>
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The same should apply to the other distros, but the specific runlevel<BR>
you use may change.<BR>
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-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC<BR>
morej@alliancetechnologies.net<BR>
515-245-7701<BR>
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>>> "Mathew R. Phillips" <mathew.phillips@wartburg.edu> 11/04/09 8:24 AM<BR>
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Last night my dad and I figured out how to run a single application on<BR>
an xserver without having a desktop. I know that you could setup one of<BR>
the runlevels to only start the x server so one could do this. But i<BR>
still want my default runlevel to be the full desktop environment. but i<BR>
was wondering if it was possible to set something up so that you could<BR>
select an option from the grub menu that would just boot up an x server<BR>
and start firefox for example instead of having to go through changing<BR>
the runlevel once its already booted. I don't know how many times i<BR>
shutoff my computer and then realized i had to boot it all the way up<BR>
into the desktop just to check an email. It would be pretty handy to<BR>
just boot to firefox and not start up kde or any of the other daemons<BR>
other than networking of course.<BR>
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Matt<BR>
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