bkil
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Posted: Nov. 06 2006,12:39 |
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Dear drio,
Glad to hear you've got DSL working. 
About my instructions: well, I have to confess that I made them up from memory, :blush: you see I don't boot LiveCD's too often, I only needed those commands as a quick hack to make harddrive install work on a PC... Let me try to clarify that post a bit (again from memory)
The first line was supposed to mean that I think it's sufficient for you to simply enter "dsl 2" at the grub boot prompt (you could append other parameters as you will), and as a consequence, the CD will log you into a rather clean root session (no "sudo su" needed for the empty /tmp, /opt recreation).
"su dsl" (or "su - dsl" if you'd like to have a login shell) is needed to change user from root to dsl, to enable you to run startx (it's not needed for installation of course).
After a harddrive install, you probably make both your /opt and /tmp non-volatile, so you don't need these "tricks" later on.
And the superuser can also start X sessions (at least on a hard install), his(her) config files in /root work the same way as any other user's in /home/*. Not that root would need X or anything...  Anyway, if startx throws errors, you need to either set your home directory, or make sure you use a valid configuration by copying, creating or editing your (hidden) config files and scripts. (Though all worked as expected automagically after a full HD-install over here)
Yours,
bkil
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