Help me. Cannot boot into GUI in mandriva linux 2006?
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at
21:53
I am new to linux.
I have installed Mandriva linux 2006 that came in 3 cd’s pack.
Installation went without any problem and it asked me to reboot after installation.
On rebooting its asking something like Localhost- Userid: and password.
If i enter the user name and password, its taking me to shell promt with that user name.
how can i enter the KDE or GNOME environment.
Tagged with: gnome environment • kde • Linux
Filed under: Mandrake
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type startx to start your x-windows session or change the runlevel in the /etc/inittab to say id:5:initdefault instead of id:3:initdefault. Then properly reboot and if doesn’t start up into the gui you need to reinstall and make sure you choose KDE or gnome (KDE is what the creator of linux prefers). Also your video card may not be supported.
While I’ve never used Mandriva, perhaps no Xorg environment was installed when you installed it on to your machine? Do you remember selecting it from a list of packages to be installed?
If you’re interested, here are some other, very newbie-friendly distros:
http://opensuse.org/ (I am using this distro to write this)
http://freespire.org/
http://xandros.com/
Perhaps one of those will work better for you!