On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:59:02 +0100 Derek Jennings disseminated the following:
> Welcome I hope you enjoy your Linux experience. > > 1/ At the black screen log on as root user giving the password you gave at > install time. then enter 'XFdrake' to go into a text based GUI to set up > your video card.(Use the Tab key to navigate) > To restart linux type 'shutdown -r now' at the prompt. > > 2/The installer will have auto detected how the partitions were mounted last > time you installed. If you just accept the partitions it lists you will go > onto a screen which offers to format the partitions. By default only > the /home partition will be set to be formatted. Are you sure? Man, they've reversed it since I did my last install, usually it leaves /home alone by default and only formats /. > The important thing is not to allow the /mnt/windows partition to be formatted > because that is your Windows partition. Amen to that, but what to do with a black screen after boot? -- JoeHill RLU / #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:45:25 up 70 days, 18:34, 7 users, load average: 0.24, 0.15, 0.15 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" --Mahatma Gandhi
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