Re: Install X and Lilo
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:25:29PM -0700, Thomas Merritt Draney wrote:
> I did very well I must say for a new user to linux. I got debian installed
> to the point i am sitting there with a command prompt.
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Congratulations ;)
> But i am now lost. Where is Gnome or how do I start up into it?
> When I run startx it says something is broken?
> I need to dual boot Windows 95 sadly with Lilo and it says
> permission denied when i try to access lilo.conf.
>
Have no fear, we all got stuck for a while at this point.
1. Gnome should be installed in order to start it up. You should fire-up dselect to verify if Gnome is there. Or simply type gdm at the prompt.
2. Well it's most probably telling you that X should be configured in order to run properly, though not in Human Readable text.
Run either
xf86config
XF86Setup
xf86cfg (only works with XFree 4.x)
3. You've probably created a 'normal' useraccount (good start) to run your day to day operations. Log in as root and then try again.
> Can anyone send me a good help site for these problems or any other
> assistance would be much appreciated because I really want to try out
> Debian but I might have to go with Progeny to start out it appears.
You might consider www.debian.org :0) there are lots of allready answered questions in the mailinglist archives.
A couple of nice sites are www.linux.com www.linux.org www.aboutlinux.com www.linuxtoday.com etc... www.osdn.com is also a must
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