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I'm totally new to Linux and just bought an emachine with Linpus 9.2 installed. When I start it up it goes through a bunch of checks ends with [root@localhost /]#
I assume it is looking for some kind of startup command or password but I have nothing and the documentation says nothing. Can anyone help me out??
I haven't used Linpus before, but that is a common command line prompt. From what you have posted, you are the user "root" (which is the administrator) on the machine "localhost" (127.0.0.1).
If Linpus has a GUI you may be able to type "startx" at the prompt and get a graphical interface to work in.
i have linpus lite on my acer aspire one but it goes direct to gui
(checking red hat bible)
well linpus is built off fedora which is built off redhat
so it starts in a text based runlevel3
to make it boot@ runlevel 5(gui)
do this
(finding page in long book...)
type startx
umm there should be a permenant way to do this...
well i will look...
i have linpus lite on my acer aspire one but it goes direct to gui
(checking red hat bible)
well linpus is built off fedora which is built off redhat
so it starts in a text based runlevel3
to make it boot@ runlevel 5(gui)
do this
(finding page in long book...)
type startx
umm there should be a permenant way to do this...
well i will look...
I tried startx but nothing
Personnaly I expected it to go to the GUI but no.
You bought it from Woot, didn't you? If so, you should have read the description, there is NO GUI, it is a very useless install, none of the hardware is configured.
They put it on there to get around an agreement with MS, the agreement says every computer sold must have an operating system, even if it is not Windows. Some OEMs used to install FreeDOS on them, some probably still do. It is not meant to be used for anything except a free place holder so they can sell the computer to someone who wants to install their own OS.
You bought it from Woot, didn't you? If so, you should have read the description, there is NO GUI, it is a very useless install, none of the hardware is configured.
They put it on there to get around an agreement with MS, the agreement says every computer sold must have an operating system, even if it is not Windows. Some OEMs used to install FreeDOS on them, some probably still do. It is not meant to be used for anything except a free place holder so they can sell the computer to someone who wants to install their own OS.
ah i kinda just worked something out if you were networked you could have typed yum install xfce4 kdm and then after that finished startx would work thats how i did it for my ubuntu server machine
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