Great Meeting - Still humble.

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Glad you enjoyed it Joe. First thing that would come to mind is that if
you can get to a prompt, the system already loaded and either did not
install X or X is not configured correctly for your hardware or your
hardware is not compatible. It is also very possible to have a corrupted
download. During the install of the system, did you have a text walk
through of the setup and did you at any time during the install see a
prompt to install X or any other package for that matter? If you had
only the text install from the newer RedHat for instance, it may have
been because you were lacking in memory or system resources to do the
graphical install. Anyway, with the newer RedHat, even in the text
install, you should have been prompted to install X and at least test
it. Just a few thoughts to start.
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 08:17, Joseph Lukasiewicz wrote:

    Just wanted to drop a quick note to say thank you to Peter and Bob
    (& JJ?), you guys have the skills and I don't know if you could tell
    but we are in awe....
    
    The 8.2 Mandrake was pretty detailed...It's easy to see how you
    could survive "on the outside" of the Microsoft world with Linux.
    It's not your grandpa's character based OS anymore! 
    
    One question (OK I lied there are a few in here) - If you start
    loading a distribution (Mandrake, RH, Debian...) are you "stuck"
    continuing down that path?  What I mean to say is, after messing
    around for several weeks with my Alpha I finally have it to a #
    prompt - How do I get it to the fancy/sexy GUI you guys were
    showing? (and all the other tools).  The RH I have has tools etc.
    but I can't get it to load, the Debian loaded but since I burned the
    disks froma download I'm sure I'm missing something...Is it possible
    to mix and match packages and "add on's" from distribution to
    distribution - kind of a roll your own approach?
    
    Several of us are ultra newbies so we will need a "by the numbers
    cook book" approach until we can at least trot with the big dogs.
    
    Joe Lukasiewicz
    
    
    
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