Am Mittwoch, den 28.09.2005, 14:46 +0530 schrieb vikram ranade: > Hello all,
hi! > I am very new to gentoo (used to use Red Hat earlier) > I have installed gentoo using the networkless install with the 2005.1 > universal CD. > I have got the system booting perfectly and detecting all the hardware > as well. > I got the network connection working and now I am running > #emerge --update --deep world > to get the latest version of the system. > > My question is .. > Is X already installed? (the system boots to a text login) probably not. > how do i start X? log into the console and type "startx". > How do I install new software ? (gnome and so on) if X is not installed, type "emerge xorg-x11". for gnome the same, "emerge gnome". theres are some cool gtk-frontends out to emerge, my favorite is "portage" ;). > check out http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml and http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page and, for sure, the emerge-manpage and the mailing-list archive for help on installing software and managing gentoo. > Thanks! > Best regards, > Vikram > no problem. josef -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
