Re: Starting out trouble

1998-11-15 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED], The program xdm says it's loaded, but there is no gui visible, just the prompt. Perhaps I misunderstood what xdm is, at least I have a prompt. I You can have the computer start with either the text prompt or xdm even if you have both installed. This is set by

Re: Starting out trouble

1998-11-14 Thread Michael Beattie
On 13 Nov 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: [snip] Bill All of the above should not be except the Linux version. How do Bill I go about getting Linux to recognize the system correctly? The Bill boot sees it all correctly including the correct ID of the SCSI Bill drives. I screwed up somewhere, big

Starting out trouble

1998-11-13 Thread Bill
Hello, I'm just starting out with Linux and am not fairing all too well. The system seems to be up and running even though it took almost ten hours for it to load. Not a good start. The computer is an old (1996) Intergraph dual P133 w/128m RAM, SB16, Adaptec SCSI, a SCSI CDROM and two SCSI HDs.

Re: Starting out trouble

1998-11-13 Thread David Z. Maze
Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill The program xdm says it's loaded, but there is no gui visible, Bill just the prompt. Perhaps I misunderstood what xdm is, at least I Bill have a prompt. I tried startx and it said no such file or Bill directory. Whatever, I'll eventually figure it out.