On Thursday 13 August 2015 01:17:34 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Wednesday 12 August 2015 05:56:09 pm Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 August 2015 19:16:22 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > I don't remember ever being offered that option when I installed. Nor > > > a few other things that I was used to, like being able to configure my > > > network as opposed to the installation just using DHCP because it found > > > DHCP on the network. :-( > > > > > > Where is this option available? Or was I supposed to install with some > > > specific invocation that I missed? > > > > It is a question asked during the install. > > > > As far as I can remember, having a root log-in is default, but you are > > offered the chance to refuse. But I have only installed Jessie twice, so > > may be misremebering it, because that is certainly what happens in > > Wheezy. But I certainly had no problem installing with root. > > It may be that it asked me if I wanted a root login to be created during > the install process, is that what you're talking about? > > > How, with what, and with what .iso, did you install? > > The DVD I used is in the drive at the moment, I was looking over some doc > files. It's the first one you can download for the 8.1 release. > > I'd downloaded 7.0 a while back (hard to believe that it's been a couple of > years already!) and tried to install that one on my workbench computer, > which was not successful. That machine has Slackware, Ubuntu, and a > couple of others on it that I was taking a look at. Then I downloaded 8.0 > more recently, and tried to install on this workstation on my desk, but I > ran into some issue or other, I can't recall just what offhand. > Thankfully I had also downloaded a "live" DVD and booting into that one and > using the install option there worked. > > I managed to trash my first install pretty good, and had to re-install. > The second one also went fine, and I then proceeded to install a number of > software packages that I want to get to know and to use. One of the first > was mc, I'm just used to using it. :-) Also some CAD packages and > assorted other technical stuff. So I'm at the point where I'd really > rather not have to go through all that again. > > I selected several desktop environments so I could evaluate them and see > what they were like, figuring that I'd add TDE to the mix. I just haven't > gotten around to that yet. > > I'm used to booting into a textmode console on my machines, and doing > "startx" to get a GUI going. The default here seems to be to boot into the > GUI, and I don't recall being offered a choice about that, either. I > know how to go in and fiddle with inittab, but now I'm reading that this > setup uses something else entirely, Welcome, or otherwise, to the world of systemd. > so I've gotta figure that one out too. > I'm also used to being able to log in as root, and use a GUI as that > user, and that hasn't worked out as well as I'd hoped either. At this > point I can select a number of different desktop environments with the GUI > login screen as a regular user, but logging into a text console as root > and then doing startx I am stuck with Xfce, which I find limiting. I would expect you to be able to just uninstall the dm (gdm3? kdm?), boot into the command line, log-in as whomsoever you wish, and startx. ISTR that you can put the GUI you want to boot into from startx in an x conf file (.xsession? probably not). I did this once, but it was ages ago and my memory is fading. > The > darn games don't even seem to work! > > I do have my network shares mounted, which is strange because I see a > failure indicated during the boot process, yet they're all there. > > TDE is pretty high up on my list, as I'm used to KDE 3.x, which is what > I'm using now on this laptop, with Slackware 12.1 under the hood. Can you > tell I'm not usually in any big hurry to upgrade? :-) If you are a KDE3-aholic you'll love TDE. FWIW, all those seem minor and soluble to me. Lisi