Installation of LiveCd - no GUI?

petersuse · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

Hello

I installed gentoo from the livecd but when i start it just the console appears and not the gui that i want to start eg openoffice - so how can i start the gui where all the programs are?

thx

belrpr · Guru Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 440

Elexorien · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 60

if its the full live cd (the 600+ mb one) then you should either get the GUI or an error saying why the gui couldnt start. if you are getting an error, tell us what it is so we can try to help with that.

petersuse · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

mmm i think i have installed everything correctly? when i start the pc i come to the localhost login and there i can login with my root pw and thats it - i installed gentoo through the installer and there i was asked if i remember correctly what to install and i clicked everything on? the installation process was very long on my pentium II 266mhz it took about 12 hours!

suicidal_orange_II · Apprentice Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 299

Thats probably your lot! I have never used the graphical installer either, but I would hope it didnt force X on you.

ext job would be to emerge xorg-x11 (graphics) and then a browser (firefox? maybe use firefox-bin, its a big package and will take a long time to compile) and then you can be searching the forums for apps to do what you wish (please dont be a noob and ask what the best is, do some research yourself

) Openoffice is also available in a -bin version, highly recommended as it takes many hours to compile on a dual core monster, let alone a pII.

Suicidal_Orange

madisonicus · Veteran Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 1130

Good place to start is the set of Gentoo Docs about setting up your desktop: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=desktop

There's a great guide there for getting X up and running, as well as how to get 3d accelleration and your window/desktop manager of choice going.

HTH,
m
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hielvc · Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:08 am Post subject:

If I remeber correctly it took a week to build X, xfce4, abiword, gnumeric, and mozilla on my old PII :wink:

If you choose Kde add another couple of days.
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spakowski · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

Did you try to start x manually

/etc/init.d/xdm start
or
gdm start