Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to do 'startx', a couple of full screens worth of > messages flow past too fast to read before the screen goes blank,
As Georg said, you can redirect this to a file. > then the background of the Debian logo appears, I get what looks to > be an icon in the upper left corner of the screen that is labeled > 'main', three icons in the upper right corner aligned vertically, You're looking at the WindowMaker window manger :) > then nothing else happens and the computer fails to respond to any > mouse or keyboard actions short of the three finger reboot. Hm, can you switch to a virtual console? Try typing Control-Command-1. > I am running with 16 MB RAM and a 30 MB swap space. 30MB of swap might be kind of tight. > Forced video, no video driver, and 256 color. On reboot with a > forced check, I get one unresolved dependency, I believe from (my) > memory it is a ec503 or something. Sounds like a network thing. You can probably ignore that.