Hi guys,

I just downloaded and installed Suse version 10. I have never used linux at all before!

I got several 'could not install xxxxx' errors during the install but just clicked ignore as I wasn't sure what had caused these?

But still.. now whenever I boot into Suse, all I get is a dos prompt style interface - where's that lovely GUI I keep seeing on Novell's website!? How do I get it!

Cheers, any and all help appreciated.

Ben

FYI: it is in poor taste to post with a topic begging for help. By posting a question everyone knows you need help. It is better to come up with a title describing the issue rather than using it to beg. Begging often gets users ignored on here. I usually ignore such titles, personally, but I am being nice today.

ANYWAY

What you keep seeing on Novell's SuSE web site is the Xwindow environment with the KDE window manager. When you install it is usually fairly sane when detecting your video card, monitor, etc. and generally gives you a very usable (albeit usually not optimal) configuration.

If you don't have any data on the system yet you could simply try installing again, making sure you select a default installation with KDE (or Gnome) to make sure that X and the desktop environment are properly installed, or you could post some info here regarding:

- processor
- motherboard & chipset
- video card
- monitor

and we will try to assist you in fixing the configuration you have now. First i would recommend repeating the install to make sure you selected the proper options first. In addition, if you see error messages (the could not install xxxxx) you should jot down the exact errors and what you were doing at that point, then you will be giving us something to go with.

In other words, we need more info in order to help you.

'could not install xxxxx' errors may indicate flaws in your installation medium. You can either try again as KimVette suggested, or check your media.

The fact that you get into text mode instead of GUI could mean that you have defined the wrong runlevel or that one of the packages that could not be installed are vital for the GUI. In the first (but more unlikely) case, you can edit the file /etc/initab and set the default runlevel to 5 (instead of 3). In the later case, make sure you get these packages installed.

You can try to use the repair function of the installation CD to attempt the installation of missing packages again.
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/1...em-Repair.html

Cheers guys, and sorry about the title - I'll try and be more descriptive in future.

I'm just going to try burning the images again at a slower speed and see if I can use the repair feature.

Thanks for your help so far, no doubt I'll be back in half hour!

Cheers again,

Ben

Right..

As soon as I go into 'repair', I get chucked in at the command line interface again. Reading some of the text which it has spewed out, I gather it tried to boot into runlevel 5, but that failed so it went into 3.

System info:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7S748
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 3000+
RAM: 512mb
Graphics: ATI Sapphire Radeon 9200SE Atlantis

Cheers,

Ben

Right bit more info. Had another look at the error messages when I just try and load Suse (ie. not go to the repair option). It reads as follows:

Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 reached
Failed services in runlevel 5: xdm
Skipped services in runlevel 5: nfs smbfs

Welcome to SUSE Linux 10.0 (i586)



Cheers,

Ben

go to runlevel 3 and log in as root then run enter" sax2 " at the prompt. have your video card specs and monitor frequences handy in case sax doesn't get them right.

right I've run sax2... but now what? It detected my graphics fine but as to where to go now... I'm lost!

Thanks for all your help, it's really appreciated!


Ben

So you may have incompatible monitor setting. Check your monitors manual for supported frequencies and adjust YaST accordingly.

A strange thing I noticed is the failed service xdm. In the default SUSE installation, kdm is the login manager. Maybe you should change this in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager (DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm").

Once you are in runlevel 3, can you get into graphical mode by typing 'startx'? If not, which error messages do you get?

I'd also suggest to run YaST->Software Managment from command-line (runlevel 3 -> root -> yast) to check if all packages are installed properly.

Right thanks guys - I did a full re-install using different discs and I've got the GUI now. Everything seems to be okay but I still had a few failures on the install (all on CD-3) The failed modules were:

python-gnome
python-orbit
pythin-xml
qscintilla
resapplet
rhythmbox

Any ideas on those? Are they vital?

Just having some problems getting it to detect my wireless card - when I go to network cards, nothing is displayed as if it cannot find it? Yet if I go into the (not sure what it's called...) hardware view where it lists all connected hardware, my card is in there?

If it helps its a Belkin 802.11g desktop wireless PCI card... Not 100% sure on the model number but quite certain its a F5D6001.

Thanks again,

Ben