[wellylug] I have installed Linux Mandrake 9.1, Now what?

Peter Jones PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz
Wed Apr 23 08:51:21 NZST 2003


I recall Rose McG also had a problem when attempting to run startx with 9.1.

Prety sure every Mandrake install I have tried (up to and including 9.0) had
the GUI as the default
option, has something been changed?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Judd [mailto:sljudd at paradise.net.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2003 08:27
> To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] I have installed Linux Mandrake 9.1, Now what?
> 
> 
> Welcome, brother!
> 
> Your friend (or many people here) could help you configure Linux to
> launch X Windows automatically for you if that's what you prefer. I'm
> not familiar with Mandrake's init scripts or I would myself. 
> 
> You don't have to go through the whole ritual if you always 
> just want to
> go straight into a GUI environment. Maybe Real Men always work from a
> console, but life's too short to do that with a desktop 
> machine all the
> time...
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 
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