Re: [newbie] Install woes (con't)

1999-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: > John & GlennI'd not be editing my /etc/inittab file till I'd > successfully executed a startx command at least once. > You're correct! Thanks for catching that. :-) John

Re: [newbie] Install woes (con't)

1999-12-18 Thread Larry Coolidge
assuming you have everything running right, then after you log in, type startx to get kde or gnome running. --- Glenn White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to the very helpful advice about the partion > info that I recived > I finally got Linux to install without issue, > however when it com

Re: [newbie] Install woes (con't)

1999-12-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John & GlennI'd not be editing my /etc/inittab file till I'd successfully executed a startx command at least once. Alan John Aldrich wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, you wrote: > > Thanks to the very helpful advice about the partion info that I recived > > I finally got Linux to install wit

Re: [newbie] Install woes (con't)

1999-12-18 Thread Toyswins
Hi Glenn, New here myslelf and very new to LINUX. You might want to check and see if the program is already installed, depending on how you set it up, it might be there, you just have to tell it to load the GUI during the boot process. With the Mandrake 6.0 there's an obvious item on that during

Re: [newbie] Install woes (con't)

1999-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, you wrote: > Thanks to the very helpful advice about the partion info that I recived > I finally got Linux to install without issue, however when it comes up I > am completely, without question, dumbfounded by the command line > structure, I thought it was going to come up in

[newbie] Install woes (con't)

1999-12-17 Thread Glenn White
Thanks to the very helpful advice about the partion info that I recived I finally got Linux to install without issue, however when it comes up I am completely, without question, dumbfounded by the command line structure, I thought it was going to come up in the xwindow deal but I guess I thought w