RH update

[Chris]

I gave up....   I did a new install onto a clean drive, and it still barfed....  I'm
going back to 7.3

Chris

John Abreau wrote:

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> Chris <chrisra at concentric.net> writes:
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> > Well, I tried startx after I did ctrl-alt-f1, but an X session was already running
> > (the login screen), so that didn't help, but I believe I have another idea to
> > help,  [rest deleted]
>
> You can run multiple X sessions simultaneously; each one uses a different
> display number. The default is ":0", and when you ran startx, it found
> that :0 was already in use. If you specifiy ":1" (or ":2", ...), then
> it will try that instead and find that it's not in use:
>
>     startx -- :1
>
> You can also tell startx what to run instead of the normal X stuff. At
> home
> I have a headless Sun server (riven) in my attic, and I set up ssh keys so
> I can ssh to it without a password. On my workstation, I run
>
>     startx /usr/bin/ssh riven /usr/dt/bin/Xsession -- :1
>
> and soon I get a nice Solaris desktop on the next tty, tunneled through
> ssh.
> So ctrl-alt-f7 is my Linux desktop and crtl-alt-f8 is my Solaris desktop.
>
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