Hello Newbies :-) > Travis King wrote: > > Hey there, my uncle and I have just installed your latest Debian Linux > on an older > Solaris system. We formated and installed Debian. > > Everything is working fine that we can see, just we dont have the GUI > (Graphic User Interface)? > Or cant execute the GUI? Our main problem is that we are new and have > no clue how to use > Linux yet. We are 99% certain that we installed it because well we > installed the whole installation! > > If you could supply me with a list of commands for Linux, and how to > start the GUI > it would be greatly apreciated.
Well, a list of commands is easy enough, if you installed succesfully and dont have a GUI then you should find yourself at the commandline; just type "apropos . | less" . That should show you that your windows experience is not a good basis for exploring Debian, because Debian is very much greater. I advise you to get a book on linux and read about the most frequently used commands. I personally like Sam's "Debian Gnu/Linux Unleashed". I think it is strange that you didnt get a book already, why did you choose Debian ? Getting you guys a gui is more complex, it normally starts itself, but in your case it didnt. The debian-user mailinglist has frequently provided solutions to problems, but if you dont give information, then how are we to know what's wrong ? unfortunately, problems without information are often ignored. What exact type of solaris box do you have ? What videocard ? What monitor ? Which version and flavor of Debian did you install ? Where did you get it from ? Which choices did you make when configuring your system during install ? did you choose task X-windows ? The subject line of your email was to the point, and you posted to the right list, that is good ! Did you notice that to (un)subscribe you have to mail to debian-user-request and not to debian-user ? Welcome to free software ! Have fun ! Siward ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- windows has many qualitys. security and reliability are not among them. > Technician: "theres one good thing about Windows" > User: "Whats that?" > Technician: smiles and says "Drag and Drop!!!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
