"This is my only functional operating system until I can get Linux to work for me."
Instead of trying to log in at the graphic login window try the three finger command:
<Ctrl> <Alt> <F3>
This should give you a command line login prompt on virtual console 3. Then login as root.
You can now debug startx from the command line. Some commands that you can try are:
which xrdb
startx
find /usr -iname "*gnome*" | less
" how does one get hold of the error messages/log files from Windows so that I might copy & paste them here?"
You can read the error files from the Linux command line with a combination of find and less. You can list directories and files with ls. Use man to find out what all of these commands mean:
man which
man startx
man find
man less
man ls
man mount
man umount
man cp
If you have a VFAT partition then you can mount the VFAT partition in Linux using the mount command and then use the cp command to copy the files to the VFAT partition. Windows can then read the files from the VFAT partition.
Another possiblity is to mount a DOS formatted floppy and use cp to copy the files to the floppy. Then umount the floppy. Windows can then read the floppy.
When you are finished working in Linux use the shutdown command to end your session:
shutdown -h now
Or
shutdown -r now
See:
man shutdown
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