On Thursday 22 August 2002 04:59 am, you wrote: > Not sure where to ask this (Don't think there's an SNF Mail list and if > there is, its hidden in some cave somewhere run by a Yogi who subsists > on rice & fish with my luck). > > Anyway... To the point of this email... or blunt end...whichever you > prefer. > > I've successfully setup the SNF Distro that Mandrake (Kindly? Cruelly?) > has made available to D/L. (As an aside, get Rid of that link for the > HTML Installation guide! Its NOT THERE! Talk about a tease! > sheesh...). Ahem, as i was saying, I d/led it & got it installed. > Teensy problem: I get the error: X-window settings error, X-window > respawning too fast. Disabling X for 5 mins. (ARGH!?) > > OK so...Off to the web I go! (Sung to the tune of The Wizard of Oz)... > > Found the error: My stupid video card isn't properly enabled somehow > (read: It needs help & counselling...but i'm too stupid to provide hand > holding). So, what to do? Well on a Normal Linux distro from MDK I > just do a "XFDrake -expert" command on the CLI. Now, being a good > little Penguin-in-training, I went to invoke this heartfelt command. > > ERROR: Command not found! IIRC... this is becuase SNF is designed to be a no monitor needed box, and you MUST configure it via a web browser from inside the lan, connected to 192.168.0.1
> BLARGH!? WTF? .... > > OK fine, theres gotta be another way... No Xsetup, Diskdrake, setup, > X-anything!? > > ACK!? Couldn't find help files either!... hm... so... I'm stranded...? > > So... what to do? I d/led the PDF File (Useless futile gesture as that > was)...hoping it would have something in it. Nada. > > So... I turn to you dear Warriors of Linux! Help a fellow Amazonian to > overcome this heartbreaking & Difficult period of Non-Guiness! > > If the points not been made clear enough, I want a GUI! Damnit! Call > me a wimp, but I need it to set this shit up & the command line ain't > helping me. :) > > Ty much
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