On Wednesday 14 March 2001 15:37, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed Mandrake Linux, and I am somewhat new to linux.
> I am having trouble with Mandrake. The desktop does not come up when
> I boot into Linux. I just get a prompt with a Dos graphic of the
> linux penguin. What did I do wrong in the install???
>
You didn't do anything wrong, you are in linux.
What you did not do, was to tell the system to start up in X.
sign on using the username/password that you created during the install,
then type startx
If you want to have the system automatically start up in x when you boot,
you will need to change the default runlevel.
Change the line in /etc/inittab that reads
id:3:initdefault:
to
id:5:initdefault:
(you will need to be root to do this)
--
Alex
Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
