Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:35:06 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newb questions Message-ID: <20081119133506.GA87794@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <200811190816.37009.ale@pcartwright.com> References: <200811190816.37009.ale@pcartwright.com>
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:16:36AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > 1. when I run startx it auto logs me in on a minimal gui ( twm?). I installed > gnome, I think, and want to log in using gnome, how do I change that? > > 2. I cannot su - to root, it says sorry. pam_group didn't seem like the > answer, or I didn't read it right. How can I su to root from my account? > Is there anything special to able to do that from ssh? I can't answer question #1. As for #2, you need to add your username to the "wheel" group in /etc/group. That's all. (You will have to log out then back in for the changes to take effect) > 3. the boot loader... This server has 2 drives, and I already had w2k server > on drive 1, and ubuntu-server on drive 2. when I boot, I now get options for > F2-DOS ( win2k boots) and F5 disk0/1. I can't seem to find any option for my > ubuntu OS. Is there a way to change that bootloader option to > add /dev/sdb6-ubuntu? I think boot0cfg is the tool you'll want to use for this. I've never been in this situation, so I don't have a command to give you. You can use boot0cfg -v <disk> (e.g. boot0cfg -v ad0) to get information about the boot0 configuration. > maybe I was looking in the wrong documentation, if any/all of this is in the > docs, which one? the handbook? Yes. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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