[CLUE-Tech] Building Kernel w/Debian

[Randy Arabie]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> You are having nothing but trouble, huh?  How did you do the install?  

Just the disk1 iso, built with jigado(sp?).

> Try to install the package called 'menu' and You can just remove the
> link for XDM in /etc/rc2.d/xdm to stop XDM from starting.  I think it
> puts one there by default.  There is also a program that will take care
> of these things for you, sometimes it is easier than manually editing:
> update-rc.d.
> 
> You are able to just ALT-CTL-F1 to a virtual console right?  

See my reply to Mat's post....I had a brain cramp.
 
> TWM should come with at least an XTERM on the menu, I thought all the
> Debian window managers had to provide that.  If not, add an 'xterm &'
> line to you .xsession file as a temporary fix.
> 
> Are you sure something didn't get all goofed up on your install?  I have
> never run into problems like these.  Maybe you are cursed ;-)
> 
> Tim
> 
> PS -> I have an Unstable image, very bare.  I just tried apt-get install
> twm, and it installed menu by default.  So if you don't have menu, you
> must not have used apt to install it?  The xterm is under
> DEBIAN->XSHELLS in the menu heierarchy.  You tried that, right?

I installed xfce w/apt-get, which installs twm as a dependancy.
It is really odd, because when i run xfce, it does have the 
DEBIAN-->XSHELLS in the menu heirarchy.

-- 
Allons Rouler!
        
Randy