This reminded me that when I installed Flidas via the text installer I did
not have the screen at which to select a DE like in the Belenos text
installer. After the install I had just a black screen. I didn't think to try
Ctrl+Alt+F7 so I just reinstalled using the graphical installer, after
Working backward from hubris: installing (and actually learning)
network-manager now since my personal preference of wicd-gtk isn't ready yet
and I want to see what my lower end hardware (Thinkpad T-43 and EeePCs) think
of a minimalist install before I attempt to get a DE to load.
To clari
I'm finally typing from a shiny new Flidas install on my Thinkpad T61.
This has been a bit of a comedy of errors, but it seems painfully obvious in
retrospect and so I wanted to share.
Much as I hoped my problem was with unetbootin and/or the disk creator
utility on T7, nothing changed afte