frazelle09 Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 (edited) Dear sirs: Well, finally got 10.1 installed on my PIII, 14 in. monitor. However it boots up just fine, except that we don't have a desktop, it just goes to: [fred@localhost fred]$_ i can login successfully with name and password but then what? Is there anyway that i can convince this thing to boot into some sort of gui? We only downloaded, burned and "installed" the three disk set. Am i missing something here? Did we select one of the options that we shouldn't when we installed it? We've been working on this for about a week now / most of the time was taken up with figuring out that both of our CD burners on the machine couldn't read the CDs which had been burned on another, sigh. Thanks a lot for all your help. Have a nice day!!! :D Edited December 22, 2004 by frazelle09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 after login, type startx and hit Enter. post any errors here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nplatis Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 To see the GUI from where you are (the command prompt, type: startx Now when you log off from the gui you will be at the command prompt again. To convince mandrake to boot into the gui, do the following: At the command prompt login as root. Then type XFdrake Navigate with the arrow keys to Options, with the Tab key to DoIt and answer the question accordingly (it asks whether to boot into the gui!). The go to Close. Next time you will hopefully boot into the gui. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazelle09 Posted December 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Dear BVC Thank you very much! You guys are fast! i can hardly wait to get home from work... Will follow your instructions. BTW love the Ubuntu idea. after login, typestartx and hit Enter. post any errors here <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazelle09 Posted December 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Dear nplatis: Thank you very much! That was a very good suggestion as well! i guess i won't need to get CD 4 now. Have a wonderful day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 you are welcome!!! Let us know what happens! BTW love the Ubuntu idea. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I hate the idea...but I like the distro :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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