init 4 > cannot find xdm
Posted: 13 Oct 2016, 00:31
I have a brand new Porteus-v3.1-i486 install on an old PC.
Booting to text mode seems to go OK.
Now trying to launch the gui using 'init 4' and it spawns repeated errors of:
... until the process is killed.
startx does nothing.
Neither does 'init 5'.
I tried 'apt-get install lxde-common' but I can't even run 'sudo' or 'apt-get' commands.
I'm using Porteus after failing with other small Linux distros because I have graphics issue and Porteus would allow me to configure the install to boot up in text mode.
Any guidance is greatly appreciated!
Booting to text mode seems to go OK.
Now trying to launch the gui using 'init 4' and it spawns repeated errors of:
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No such file or directory:
/usr/bin/xdm
startx does nothing.
Neither does 'init 5'.
I tried 'apt-get install lxde-common' but I can't even run 'sudo' or 'apt-get' commands.
I'm using Porteus after failing with other small Linux distros because I have graphics issue and Porteus would allow me to configure the install to boot up in text mode.
Any guidance is greatly appreciated!