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.
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.
Linux is like unix, it uses file permissions. The /etc/lilo.conf file
can only be written to by the system administrative user, "root".
Read some lilo documentation before you login as root and actually do
anything. Try: "man lilo.conf", "man lilo".
About gnome and x windows, are you sure that you installed these?
You can check this, by starting the "dselect" program, and choosing
"select" from the main menu. Don't forget to read the help screen
when it comes up. In the list, look for the xserver packages, by
typing "/xserver" and enter. Repeat the search with '\' until you
find one that is marked as installed. If you cannot find one, you
will have to install one. To do that, you have to login as "root"
user and start dselect again, as root.
To login as "root", when you are already logged in as some other user,
you simply type "su -" and then the password for the root user. To
end the root shell, type "exit" or control-d. Try to do most things
as a regular user, or you lose the advantages of the protections.
> 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.
That might not be a bad idea at all, if you are new to linux and unix.
Progeny has taken a lot of care to get things like gnome working on
your system automatically. That should get you started more easily.
If you install uncut debian, it is less configured, but also more
flexible. You can install gnome, kde or just xfree86 and fvwm. Or no
xwindows at all, if it is for a server.
Cheers,
Joost
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