Hello all,

I have a computer with these specs:

-233Mhz AMD K6-2 processor
-27GB HD
-288MB RAM
-1 MB shared graphics (this is an older [1997-98] ATI card)

I had Knoppix 3.9 on it, but decided to give MEPIS a try after drooling over some screenshots. I put the SinplyMEPIS 2004.06 LiveCD in the drive, it booted up just fine to KDE, and everything ran fine. Toyed around with that for about 5 minutes before deciding I wanted to install it. I told it to use the entire HD and install the Grub on the MBR. I did have an external 2.5 inch HD attached to the USB port at this time. My BIOS does not support booting from a USB disk.

My problem is that when it boots up, it goes to a command line, not KDE! Is there a way to start KDE from the command line? How do I make it so it goes to KDE every time?

Thanks!

Yes - just change the runlevel - I think its run level 5

The only thing I was thinking though is whether x works with your system as it is?

Have you used KDE since you installed?

type

startx

and it should start kde for you

F0ul Oli

Booting into command line is usually due to incomaptible grahics carrd/driver problem.

Try selecting more generic and different video drivers.

(xf86config as root)

make a backup first of Xf86-Configure

Hi, just wanted to post an update. I put Mepis 3.3 on this computer and although it takes 4 minutes to boot up, it runs KDE just fine.

I'm going to try Mepis 2003.06 and see how that works. I'm thinking maybe I had a bad .iso image with 2004.06.

Thanks!

K. M.

You could change from KDE to something lighter if you like, such as the wonderful fluxbox.

Other light choices include icewm, xfce, fvwm.

There are others too.

Yeah, I've tried some of those under Knoppix. Unfortunately, none of them work as well for a newbie, in my opinion. Plus, we have Mepis 3.3 on a much better computer (3.2Ghz, 512MB RAM, 160GB + 300GB HDs) and I'd just like to learn one interface.