barbedsaber
October 21st, 2010, 05:03 PM
ok, I have a really old computer that I'm trying to get up and running since my ubuntu laptop's motherboard fried.
I downloaded the arch i686 image, and installed that without too much trouble
booted for the first time, updated pacman (a quick look at the wiki told me to enter
pacman -Sy
installed E17
pacman -S e-svn
(which I want to use rather than gnome because it's an older machine, and I wanted to try something new)
but now I don't know how to make it run my newly downloaded desktop environment.:(
Obviously I didn't have a desktop manager, I have installed SliM and XDM, but I don't know how to make either of them start at boot, so I can select E17 and get a desktop :confused::confused::confused:
also, I need to create my own user account, so that once I have it set up with the packages I want, I can stop using the root account.
thanks for reading.
I downloaded the arch i686 image, and installed that without too much trouble
booted for the first time, updated pacman (a quick look at the wiki told me to enter
pacman -Sy
installed E17
pacman -S e-svn
(which I want to use rather than gnome because it's an older machine, and I wanted to try something new)
but now I don't know how to make it run my newly downloaded desktop environment.:(
Obviously I didn't have a desktop manager, I have installed SliM and XDM, but I don't know how to make either of them start at boot, so I can select E17 and get a desktop :confused::confused::confused:
also, I need to create my own user account, so that once I have it set up with the packages I want, I can stop using the root account.
thanks for reading.