From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 13:16:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CAE1065672 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:16:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ale@pcartwright.com) Received: from host.yoursoftdns9.com (host.yoursoftdns9.com [74.86.125.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742228FC1D for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:16:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ale@pcartwright.com) Received: from [208.65.89.183] (port=49444 helo=paulandcilla) by host.yoursoftdns9.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L2mvA-0004Q7-Qi for FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:16:40 -0600 From: Paul Cartwright Organization: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:16:36 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811190816.37009.ale@pcartwright.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.yoursoftdns9.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - pcartwright.com Cc: Subject: newb questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:16:41 -0000 ok, so I got this freebsd server up and running, even able to ssh to it. questions: 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? 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? maybe I was looking in the wrong documentation, if any/all of this is in the docs, which one? the handbook? thanks -- Paul Cartwright