On Mon, August 2, 2004 20:42, Chris Hewitt said: > On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 19:30, robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hmmm. "startx" is not present now. Looks like I need to install something >> else... > > Robin, > > > This may be stating the obvious, but given the problems you are coming > across, you could probably have a full system with X quicker if you reinstalled from > scratch from the CDs. > Nah, that would be defeatist! Also, I'm installing to a software RAID1 mirror for the root filesystem with /usr, /var, and /home filesystems mounted from lvm volumes on a large software raid5 array. So, a reinstall wouldn't be quite as straight-forward as it might initially appear. It didn't take much longer to sort things out. I'm not at the machine in question at the moment but I had basically removed xorg-x11 (!) and need to re-install that. I think I also needed to do "switchdesk gnome" to get things working. Everything is up and running now. Cheers, R. -- http://robinbowes.com
