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Glad you enjoyed it Joe. First thing that would come to mind is that if you can get to a prompt, the system already loaded and either did not install X or X is not configured correctly for your hardware or your hardware is not compatible. It is also very possible to have a corrupted download. During the install of the system, did you have a text walk through of the setup and did you at any time during the install see a prompt to install X or any other package for that matter? If you had only the text install from the newer RedHat for instance, it may have been because you were lacking in memory or system resources to do the graphical install. Anyway, with the newer RedHat, even in the text install, you should have been prompted to install X and at least test it. Just a few thoughts to start.
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On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 08:17, Joseph Lukasiewicz wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Just wanted to drop a quick note to say thank you to Peter and Bob (& JJ?), you guys have the skills and I don't know if you could tell but we are in awe....</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>The 8.2 Mandrake was pretty detailed...It's easy to see how you could survive "on the outside" of the Microsoft world with Linux. It's not your grandpa's character based OS anymore! </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>One question (OK I lied there are a few in here) - If you start loading a distribution (Mandrake, RH, Debian...) are you "stuck" continuing down that path? What I mean to say is, after messing around for several weeks with my Alpha I finally have it to a # prompt - How do I get it to the fancy/sexy GUI you guys were showing? (and all the other tools). The RH I have has tools etc. but I can't get it to load, the Debian loaded but since I burned the disks froma download I'm sure I'm missing something...Is it possible to mix and match packages and "add on's" from distribution to distribution - kind of a roll your own approach?</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Several of us are ultra newbies so we will need a "by the numbers cook book" approach until we can at least trot with the big dogs.</FONT></FONT></I>
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