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Newb question
SameBrian:
quote:Originally posted by Ecsyle...:
mandrake will be able to see, mount, read, and write to your windows drives. In fact, I installed 9.1 today (Part of the "desktop' challenge i got myself into), and i was able to mount my windows drive (dual boot) and write to it. Easy.
It is running like a champ. Very responsive.
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umm... <--newb
flap:
Do you want to know what a swap partition is?
http://people.debian.org/~psg/ddg/node81.html
SameBrian:
Okay something happened...the last thing I remember changing was I set XP as the primary boot (so my family doesn't get pissy) and now I don't get the GUI anymore...it just boots to a prompt screen where I can login and stuff but I can't really do anything like suft the net..just view what's on my desktop and in my documents...
How do I fix this?
flap:
Which of the two operating systems are you talking about? And what do you mean by not being able to surf the net? You can't start a browser, or you have no internet connection, what?
SameBrian:
What I mean is that when I run Mandrake I don't get an option to start with KDE or whatever else is installed...it just goes to a prompt screen where I can login but it's all just text....and by suft the net I mean that I can't launch any web browsers (ie. last time I checked, there aren't any web browsers that support text only surfing)
Anyway my friend told me I should type startx to get my GUI up and running...my question is why did this problem happen in the first place?
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