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. > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >