Simon Kitching: > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 03:32 -0500, Mark Anderson wrote: > > Greetings. I just installed Debian using the ISOs from your site. > > Everything went fine and then i got the "login" command. At this point > > I typed in my username and password and what i got was this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~S: (the "name" being my username i made during > > install). I can't get beyond this to the GUI. I have little knowledge > > of command line use and none of Linux in general, which i imagine is > > obvious by now :) I would appreciate help in how to get beyond the > > point i've descibed above. Thank you.
One hint: I didn't read your original email since it was HTML-only. many people here (including me) use console mail/Usenet software and we really love plaintext. You might want to take a look at http://www.debian.org/doc/ for general Linux and Debian information. > * type "apt-get x-window-system-core" to install the basic graphics > system typo: 'apt-get install x-window-system-core'. The installation scripts should ask enough questions to deliver a usable configuration. If not, run xf86cfg. > I think that's all you need; after that rebooting should give you a > graphical logon. No need to reboot. Just run '/etc/init.d/gdm restart' as root. If there is no such script, apt-get install gdm. > I don't know if your graphics will be properly > configured, though: you've skipped the hardware detection that's built > in to the installer and I don't know how to manually run that. It's xf86cfg and should be run on installation of xserver-xfree86 (hwich is a dependancy of x-window-system-core). > If you > selected the Gnome desktop then you might need to go into "applications| > Desktop Preferences|Screen Resolution" to select a reasonable > resolution. If you chose the KDE desktop option then there will no doubt > be a similar option somewhere. But as far as I know neither of them can change to higher resolutions than those from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 J. -- At night I go to the kitchen; specifically, the knife drawer. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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