[K12OSN] State of Centos Based k12ltsp

[Henry Hartley]

Ray Garza
>> On Monday 11 June 2007 10:11:45 am Rob Owens wrote:
>> > Somebody on this list had the same trouble very recently.  I
>> > can't recall the exact subject line of the post, but I suggest
>> > you search the archives.  If I recall, it turned out to not be
>> > a problem with the file on Eric's server.
>> 
>> Yup, that was me. I never did get it to work from the CD's ISO's
>> so I went the DVD route. It installed on my spare pc at home and
>> worked fine. I use the same DVD on my server at work and it also
>> installed fine but after creating the first user I don't get a
>> gui. I'm at the CLI waiting to logon.  I login as root and reboot
>> and it goes back to the CLI. I haven't much time to look at the
>> logs to see what's going on.
>> 
>> I think I'll wait for the next release that Eric said was coming
>> out soon andtry again.

Many people prefer not to run the GUI on servers so the default is
to boot to the CLI.  Look in /etc/inittab for a line like this:

id:3:initdefault:

Change the 3 to a 5 and you will be booted to the GUI after that.

-- 
Henry