just installed red hat...already lost

[hnugz]

I don't know whether I installed a GUI or not, I figured it was on by default.  Right now after I tell it to boot linux I get a prompt that says "hnugz login:"

So I put in "hnugz" and my password and then I get the line "[hnugz@hnugz hnugz]$"

What is this?  How do I get out of this?

[Calum]

it's a command prompt. From here you can do anything that you can usually do in a terminal. To run the GUI, if you have it installed, type "startx" when you see the prompt "$" okay?

You can set it up so you can get the GUI by default, and you then can get six different terminals by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 through to Ctrl-Alt-F6, and Ctrl-Alt-F7 will be the GUI, i think. can't remember how to get it to go automatically at startup, you have to put the command in one of yr startup scripts, anyway, startx should do for now. If it doesn't work then either your video card is not installed right, or XFree86 is not installed right.

[ June 12, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[hnugz]

OK, that started it but then it said "Could not find internet address hnugz for Gnome"  What kind of problems is this going to cause?

[Calum]

that's a new one on me i'm afraid! is it causing an actual problem? i'm sure someone will be along to tell you what it's all about, 'cos i'm afraid i haven't a clue! is it stopping you connecting to the internet? I suspect it's some sort of local/remote machine mixup, and that the actual error message may be a bit misleading, but as i say, i haven't heard of that one before...

[hnugz]

OK, well I can connect to the internet.  It might be something with networking then.  Guess I'll find out when I figure out how to access the other comps on the network.  I've got a loooong night of screwin with linux ahead of me.  Thanks for the info.

[choasforages]

hmmm, you want to start up with a gui i haer, this should work, ok, there is a file in the /etc folder called inittab

if you open it with a rooted text editor, there should be a line

id:3:initdefault

change that 3 to a 5, and the computer should start up in graphical login manager mode,, probably gdm, i hope that this helps abit

[sporkme]

congrats on choosing linux

i promise it is easier after a few days

[ June 12, 2002: Message edited by: sporkme ]

[Ice-9]

Actually it doesn't get easier after a few days.Because the longer you use Linux, the more you want to do and the more things get complicated.    
I just installed the latest NVidia driver and was amazed how many "situations" I ran into, but everything is nice now    

That's when you realize what M$ is really doing to you, point-click, point-click, don't think about what you're doing, we're thinking for you!

Linux sure is refreshing and challenging, it's been a few days now since I last booted into Win2K and I feel good about it.

[ June 12, 2002: Message edited by: Ice9 ]

[slave]

Linux will never work on the desktop; it's missing too many things like an easy GUI software installer, and the only worthwhile Linux GUI's (kde and gnome) are way too slow.  Gnome doesn't even have AA fonts, and KDE just got them straightened out.  Besides, the GNOME and KDE projects are each working on the same thing, trying to build a separate but similar UI and application framework; how stupid is that?Plus, what good is Linux when Microsoft Frontpage isn't available for it?  If you want to use "UNIX" in a friendly way, just use a Mac.  Linux will only be for servers; companies aren't even investing at all in any "linux-on-the-desktop" endeavours, anyway.  If you want to use Linux as your desktop OS, that's fine, but only if you don't mind being hampered by esoteric config programs, an ugly, slow and ineffecient GUI, and sketchy font support.

[hnugz]

Hmmm the line was already set to 5, is there any other way to start in graphical mode?  Also, when i try to log in as root, it says something like [root hnugz@root]$, at least i think that's it.  Am I really logged in as the root user?

[slave]

One way to find out is to type the simple command rm -Rf /  That should fix the problem.

[choasforages]

hmmm, actually you forgot somthing, i think
would'nt the make it all unusable be
yes|rm -r /

but there are way better ways to kill a linux install

[Heru]

Ill answer one of XP's questions.
He asked 'How good is linux if Frontpage isnt available for it?'

My answer, extremely good.   Frontpage outputs broken HTML that can only be veiwed properly in IE.  any serious web master would not use Frontpage to make a web site.

And Linux is getting a good hold on the desktop market.  It's been estimated that there are more Desktop Linux users than Jewish people in the world.  Gnome and KDE are two seperate projects that do the same thing.  Thats the beauty of Linux, you have a choice when it comes to almost everything.  Gnome actually does support AA fonts(not too gracefully at the moment, but version 2, due out next month will support them natively and very well).  And plenty of countries are investing in Linux on the desktop, just not overly money hungry ones like the USA.  And lots of schools in this country and others are setting up Linux desktops, including mine.  And if you consider KDE or Gnome ugly, then you have a serious problem; FVWM is ugly, but not KDE or Gnome.

And you discredited yourself quite abit by asking that question about MS Frontpage.  Frontpage is only used by newbies to computing, who don't know of any other easy way to make websites.  As I said before, it outputs broken HTML, so that IE interprets it best.  Frontpage is a great example of MS apealing to the lowest comman denominator, in order to hold on to it's monopoly.

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by choasforages:
hmmm, actually you forgot somthing, i think
would'nt the make it all unusable be
yes|rm -r /

but there are way better ways to kill a linux install

rm -rf /
or
rm --recursive --force /

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by Heru:
Ill answer one of XP's questions.
He asked 'How good is linux if Frontpage isnt available for it?'

My answer, extremely good.   Frontpage outputs broken HTML that can only be veiwed properly in IE.  any serious web master would not use Frontpage to make a web site.

And Linux is getting a good hold on the desktop market.  It's been estimated that there are more Desktop Linux users than Jewish people in the world.  Gnome and KDE are two seperate projects that do the same thing.  Thats the beauty of Linux, you have a choice when it comes to almost everything.  Gnome actually does support AA fonts(not too gracefully at the moment, but version 2, due out next month will support them natively and very well).  And plenty of countries are investing in Linux on the desktop, just not overly money hungry ones like the USA.  And lots of schools in this country and others are setting up Linux desktops, including mine.  And if you consider KDE or Gnome ugly, then you have a serious problem; FVWM is ugly, but not KDE or Gnome.

And you discredited yourself quite abit by asking that question about MS Frontpage.  Frontpage is only used by newbies to computing, who don't know of any other easy way to make websites.  As I said before, it outputs broken HTML, so that IE interprets it best.  Frontpage is a great example of MS apealing to the lowest comman denominator, in order to hold on to it's monopoly.

The best editor for building a web page is VI, and it always will be VI. I do all of it by hand, check out www.bobhub.cjb.net or www.abysmal-plane.cjb.net