RE: XWindows and GNOME

Joel,
Maybe you could re-install your redhat from the CD (if you have one).
Make sure to choose UPGRADE existing installation if you have other
stuff you want to keep.  Otherwise redhat will start over from scratch
and you will lose anything you may have created.

Then it's going to ask you what programs you want to add and then you'll
be shooting in the dark again, maybe with a little bit more light.



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joel A. Thompson
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: XWindows and GNOME


Hi,

When I orginally installed RedHat I didn't select the XWindow
installation at all, hence I get a single black console screen upon
startup.

I'd like to install XWindows and GNOME - what are the packages and
installation procedure to get these working...  I have installed XFree86
and gnome-desktop, but it didn't fire up automatically when machine
rebooted, and after trying "startx" it complained about a config file
missing, so I ran XFree86 -configure, then I copied the XF86Config.new
file into /etc/X11 and then ran "startx" again, but didn't get a a
window manager...running... Hummmm, I believe I am shotting in the
dark... So I figure that I didn't 
install
the correct RPM's or additional ones... not sure - but there has got to
be an easier way.

Please help!

Thanks,
Joel



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