[Leaplist] Linux Advocasy: What they'll miss

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 07 May 2008 08:16, Ram K. Singh wrote:
> I did try net install twice. Install went flawlessly.
> When it came to reboot from the hard drive, all seemed
> to be moving fast smoothly but interactive desktop
> never comes up. Lost in the La La Land..:(
>
> I tried to load Fedora unsuccessfully. I have Debian
> Etch running on my Tower smoothly and hate to learn
> another flavor, another Distro.
>
> It looks like HP makes real difficult to load Linux
> and unfortunately that is the predominant affordable
> brand offered by retailers and whole sellers.

Am I understanding that you can install Linux but it won't go GUI? Why not get 
it running CLI and then try to configure X?

My favorite way to configure X is:

1) Run Knoppix to detect the video card
2) Copy xorg.conf to the hard drive
3) Reboot the native distro using the Knoppix xorg
4) Select your monitor to get rid of the flicker

What I've had trouble with is getting Wifi to work, and this new 
anti-ndiswrapper religious zealotry isn't helping.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/