Re: Initial install question
Simon Kitching wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 03:32 -0500, Mark Anderson wrote:
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>>I can't get beyond this to the GUI.
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>* type "apt-get x-window-system-core" to install the basic graphics
> system
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That should be "apt-get install x-window-system-core".
>I don't know if your graphics will be properly
>configured, though: you've skipped the hardware detection that's built
>in to the installer and I don't know how to manually run that.
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The above command should run a series of questions for video settings.
You can manually re-run these questions with "dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86".
>You might also want to try running "aptitute" as the root user.
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"aptitude", not "aptitute". aptitude is generally considered to be the
way of the future. By itself, it's menu driven, or you can use it just
like apt-get at the command line, which is the way I usually run it.
(The menu is too confusing to me - I'm dense, I guess.)
--
Kent
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