hi. if you installed just the base system, then you will need the x-window-system package - apt-get it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep "x-window" ii x-window-syste 4.3.0-5 X Window System core components thats what you'll need to startx. On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Torbjörn Schultz wrote: > Hallo > > I am a real beginner. I have successfully, I hope, installed debian, just the base > installation nothing more. I am getting the two pormpts as user and root and the > commands work etc. But I cant start X windows, I have trided startx but only to get > a message that the command is unknown, I have also tried to use F7 and other F:s > together with Alt. Nothing works. > > In the hope of getting help. > > Torbjorn > > rajesh menon at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~prm225/
