From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 14:04:50 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 7F6241065672 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:04:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com) Received: from gate.criticalsoftware.com (gate.criticalsoftware.com [212.13.37.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05BC48FC17 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:04:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.1.146] (unknown [192.168.1.146]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gate.criticalsoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F652E8EB5; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:44:10 +0000 (WET) Message-ID: <49241829.9030607@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:44:09 +0000 From: Ricardo Jesus User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Cartwright References: <200811190816.37009.ale@pcartwright.com> <20081119133506.GA87794@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081119133506.GA87794@icarus.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newb questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ricardo.m.jesus@criticalsoftware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:04:50 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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 (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. > > Paul, Regarding question #1 just take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook, namely Chapter 5 "The X Window System" under section 5.7.1.2. Regards, Ricardo Jesus.