[Cialug] X server

[Josh More]

I'd start at single user mode (level 1) and then start running the
scripts that you think you may need out of the rc1.d directory.  Build
the list of dependencies and start symlinking them into rc4.d

The specific scripts you need will depend on the distro you're using. 
In the SUSE world, they're pretty good about telling you what the
dependencies are.  I don't know about the others.  



-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
 515-245-7701

>>> "Mathew R. Phillips" <mathew.phillips at wartburg.edu> 11/04/09 8:45 AM
>>>
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.

Matt



-----Original Message-----
From: Josh More [mailto:morej at alliancetechnologies.net]
Sent: Wed 11/4/2009 8:28 AM
To: cialug at cialug.org; Mathew R. Phillips
Subject: Re: [Cialug] X server
 
Under SUSE, you just configure runlevel 4 to do what you want.  Then, at
the default boot screen, you add "4" to the kernel options and it does
what you want.  You could go all out and create a GRUB menu option, but
I've never bothered.

The same should apply to the other distros, but the specific runlevel
you use may change.




-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
 515-245-7701

>>> "Mathew R. Phillips" <mathew.phillips at wartburg.edu> 11/04/09 8:24 AM
>>>

Last night my dad and I figured out how to run a single application on
an xserver without having a desktop. I know that you could setup one of
the runlevels to only start the x server so one could do this. But i
still want my default runlevel to be the full desktop environment. but i
was wondering if it was possible to set something up so that you could
select an option from the grub menu that would just boot up an x server
and start firefox for example instead of having to go through changing
the runlevel once its already booted. I don't know how many times i
shutoff my computer and then realized i had to boot it all the way up
into the desktop just to check an email. It would be pretty handy to
just boot to firefox and not start up kde or any of the other daemons
other than networking of course.

Matt