On Wednesday 31 Mar 2004 16:09, 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.
Login as root, and try: "ls /usr/X11R6/bin" If you get a list of files, X is installed. Is "startx" in that list? If you get nothing, or an error saying the directory doesn't exist, you need to install X, which you do with: "apt-get install xserver-xfree86" Tom