try typing:
startx
if that doesn't take you into a GUI then as root type:
Xconfigurator
this will take you into the x setup. After you get everything configured
and tested there will be an option to allow you to startx automatically
Eunice Thompson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul John Kiener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 5:25 AM
Subject: [newbie] can't install x-windows....rest of computer is f(*ed up!
> hello,
> can anyone help me with this problem.
> 1st, i tried to install linux. i had the opportunity to have linux
> take over my whole computer, since i ended up formatting everything.
> so i had autoallocate allocate and create the partitions in the linux
> setup. then, i installed it. after installing the packages, i reached
> the part where it said it was going to install x-windows. so i waited.
> then the screen turned black for like 2 seconds, then it went to a
> screen full of gray x's. i shutdown the comp. rebooted, and it started
> in the mandrake dos type thing where it asks for my localhost login.
> after that, all i get is this prompt...
> [paul@localhost paul]$
> and from there i don't know what to do. i tried to re-install linux
> over again to setup x-windows....but no avail either. help please! God
> bless! peace!
>
> Paul John "Stiff-man" Kiener
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
