Re: where's the gui
From: James Knott (james.knott_at_rogers.com)
Date: 01/25/05
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:08:29 -0500
wozza96@hotmail.com wrote:
> I installed a suse 9.1 dvd I got from a magazine
> The installation went beautifully, and my shiny new suse desktop asked
> me to "enjoy!". But it all it's given me is command prompt. I thought
> we left those things behind 10 years ago. Silly me, expecting windows,
> icons, menus and pointers. But it is the nicest command prompt
> environment I have ever seen.
>
> at the command prompt I typed:x and hit enter. I got some kind of error
> message. No, I don't know what the message was, because I had to
> uninstall it all to be able to reinstall windows so I could post this
> message.
>
During the install, there's an option for whether you want to boot to
desktop or command prompt. If you boot to command prompt, you can enter
"startx" , to start the desktop. If you want to make it permanent, edit
the file /etc/inittab and change the line id:3:initdefault: to
id:5:initdefault:.
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