Re: Network and X Window Problems when installing Debian

From: P.T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:50:15 GMT

Haoyu Zhang <flyfeather@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> Networking:
> I am sure the network card is installed well. I
> can ping the gateway, the ip of which is 192.167.0.1.
> I can even ping the outer ip of the gateway, which
> was provided by the campus computer service. But
> DNS can't be accessed and further ...

Put the right entries in /etc/resolv.conf . Problem?

> This is really strange.

No it isn't.

> The system can't start X Window and askes me to configure
> it. But after I entered the root password, it just simply

Configuring X means running XFree86 -configure, and editing the
resulting config file. I don't know fron your description what you are
doing, but please don't!

> tries to restart X Window again, without asking me to
> make any configuration change and of course it failed again
> and again. I really don't know how to configure it.

Doesn't the man page for XFree86 tell you how? What about the various
howtos and the project pages on the web?

Peter

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