A little more info (I sent this email to a friend before I contacted your
group, but I haven't heard back from him; he might be away):

Having a few problems booting up the graphical interface for Gnome for
Linux. I Inserted a PCUser CD Containing StarOffice 5.1, I click on the
StarOffice icon in the menu and opened SETUP.ZIP, but nothing was useful so
I closed it, than I ran SETUP.EXE which did nothing. Then I closed all open
programs and halted the system with the gnome foot-print thingeeabobby. 

Then next morning I got up and booted into Linux (first thing, of course!).
It ran the system check
but some of the output was different (I think it was running a
scandisk-like program which checked the 2nd partition. This is following
output:

/dev/hda2 was not cleanly unmounted check forced
/dev/hda2: :===

Later it said:
Inode     i----blocks is 86 should be 80 FIXED
etc

and a bit later..
0.5% non contiguous 1415231/2048001 blocks

then it went really fast for a couple of lines, so I couldn't see, then
went to:
local host login

then the screen goes blank ie black.

After that nothing at all happens, and when I reboot, it goes through the
same procedure...

any idea would be greatly appreciated....
MTIA
Luke

> 
> PS.  The hard disk is partitioned like this:
> 
> 1st partition around 2Gb (windows) 
> 2nd partiion around 2Gb (Linux) 

> 3rd partion Shared 1.5Gb for window/Linux
> 4th Partition is a Swap Drive for Linux 0.5Gb (but I'm not too sure how
this works yet)
> 

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