How do i get the ubutnu Gui up, i seem to be stuck in CLI :o

aysiu · 05-08-2006, 06:24 PM

It sounds as if you might have done a server install instead of a regular install. A regular install is supposed to give you a GUI.

You don't need a CD if you have an internet connection.

When you get to a black screen with white text and a login prompt, log in.

You should then get a prompt that looks like this:

Code:

username@ubuntu:~$

At that prompt, type these commands:

Code:

cd
wget -c http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/breezy.list
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup
sudo cp breezy.list /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
rm breezy.list
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

rawplug89 · 05-09-2006, 11:04 AM

It works! Not sure how, not sure why :P
Its currently installing i shall report back later.

1 more question. Is there a way to re-arrange the order of the OS in GRUB boot loader, the technoboic people in my house want it to boot xp by defualt....

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When i say it worked, i mean it worked, mounting the cd and getting the files from there

rawplug89 · 05-09-2006, 11:59 AM

Ok i now get the GUI login screen but whenever i try to login with my user name i get
home/tom appears to be your directory
this does not exist setting your directory to /root
this is unlikely to work unless you run in terminal mode

is there something i need to do get a user to login?

voger · 05-09-2006, 01:19 PM

Try to go with ctrl+alt+f1 in command line and

Code:

sudo mkdir /home/tom
sudo chown tom /home/tom
sudo chgrp tom /home/tom

Just a question. How did you managed to mess up such a straight forward installation? lol

rawplug89 · 05-09-2006, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by voger

Just a question. How did you managed to mess up such a straight forward installation? lol

No idea just went throught the steps they told me.... therefore not my fault.... honestly

rawplug89 · 05-09-2006, 01:31 PM

all three of those lines give me operation not permitted errors

any other ideas.
Also any way of changing the default OS in GRUB?

rawplug89 · 05-09-2006, 01:42 PM

Just had to boot into windows for something and noticed that the user profiles i had created were appearing under the FAT32 partition i created, shouldn't they be on the linux partition???

Becuase i wanted to dual boot XP i found a guide which suggested splitting my 80GB hd into
50GB Windows
14GB Linux
1GB Linux Swap file
5GB FAT32

is this screwing it up?

voger · 05-09-2006, 01:52 PM

With what username do you login in command line? If it is your username (i assume tom) do you type these commands as seen above? If yes then the system asks the password. Do you type the password of the user that is currently loged in?

For the grub thing.

Code:

sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst-backup
vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

Just in case you dont want to mess up with vi

Code:

sudo apt-get install mc
sudo mcedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

In that file there are entries like

Quote:

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-686
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-686 root=/dev/hda8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-686
savedefault
boot

And one entry like

Quote:

title Windows NT/2000/XP (loader)
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

The first entry is entry nr. 0. So you start counting the entries 0, 1, 2, 3. If i remember well WinXP must be nr. 3. So you find near the beggining of the file the line

Quote:

default 0

and change that to 3

rawplug89 · 05-09-2006, 01:59 PM

I login with tom and when i type the sudo commands i type the root password...

voger · 05-09-2006, 02:03 PM

Quote:

ust had to boot into windows for something and noticed that the user profiles i had created were appearing under the FAT32 partition i created, shouldn't they be on the linux partition???

You probably selected, during the installation, the fat32 partition to be mounted as /home. Can you post the contents of /etc/fstab file?

voger · 05-09-2006, 02:04 PM

Quote:

I login with tom and when i type the sudo commands i type the root password...

Nope. Needs tom's password

rawplug89 · 05-09-2006, 02:07 PM

Oh there is one way for me to login, if i start in recovery mode, login with root and then run StartX i get gnome up but lots of things dont work, like the media player, ect... does this make any difference?

rawplug89 · 05-09-2006, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by voger

You probably selected, during the installation, the fat32 partition to be mounted as /home. Can you post the contents of /etc/fstab file?

A friend suggested that and all it says is lots of the little squiggles

ECTFSTAB[NEWFILE] 0,0-1 All

no idea what this means tho

Why did someone say they needed my password?

rawplug89 · 05-09-2006, 02:09 PM

I did manage to change the GRUB boot order by logging in throught the root, and then changing the text file

voger · 05-09-2006, 02:13 PM

Hmmm without seeing the full fstab file it is hard to understand what you mean. Maybe a copy paste here would help