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On Friday 21 February 2003 12:55, Mark Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> After some fiddling with the arguments and the run level (set on 3) I
> finaly got into the system. But still no graphics but dull command
> lines. I'm pretty sure I selected a GUI in the installation.
>
> Somewhere else on this list i picked up the command startx but that
> ended up in "X connection to :0.0 broken (eplicit kill or server
> shutdown"
>
> Really makes me feel going back to the pre Mac Plus days were it took
> a day to install a printer on my DOS machine ;-)
>
> Marcus
>
> >--On Friday, February 21, 2003 3:14 pm +0100 Mark Nieuwenhuizen
> >
> ><mark@marknieuwenhuizen.nl> wrote:
> >>YDL boots up from disk but doesn't go into a GUI of anykind.
> >
> >If you've not selected a GUI login this is normal.  If you did
> >select GUI login during the install, then you have a video problem.
> >
> >>Then my screen starts flashing with the inital login question, goes o=
n
> >>black for a couple of seconds, flashes teh login for half a second et=
c
> >>etc. So no time to enter any login.
> >
> >Sounds like a video problem.  Try passing different video arguments
> >at the box where you chose to boot MacOs or Linux.
> >
> >Suzanne
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