installed to terminal???help??

[gene simmons]

hi all,a freind had a old desktop lying around and it didnt work so i offered to ttry and resurect it with a low resource distro,the only one i got to work decent was a sabyon.i got it to install but during install it stated there wasnt enough ram to use the grapihc install and to use terminal to isntall,i got it to install and now it boots to terminal,i typed sudo gdm and it started up to desktop,how can i set it up so it will always start to desktop with gdm not to terminal,my freind isnt to tech savy so i dont want to confuse him,its got 256mb ram and 20g hard drive,old dell desktop,seems to work ok when its on desktop,any tips and help is appriciated,thanx in advance

[e79]

I'm not sure why you are asking questions about Sabayon on a Ubuntu forums...but anyhow here's their forums:

https://forum.sabayon.org/

[nothingspecial]

Moved to Other OS/Distro Talk

[gene simmons]

sorry i didnt know the forums were distro specific,thnx for the replies

[lightwarrior]

Well, try Ubuntu! :)

[oldos2er]

I don't consider Sabayon a "light" distro; see http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=En:FAQ#Minimum_requirements_for_Sa bayon_Linux.3F

[gene simmons]

i tried lubuntu and pinguy fedora and a few others,this is the only distro that would install on this system,it works and runs ok,i just dont know how to make it not boot into terminal,does anyone have any tips,i dont want to make a account on sabyon as i dont use it myself,only put it on this one as it worked pretty decent

[e79]

You might want to give a look at (if you haven't already)

Slitaz
www.slitaz.org/en/ (http://www.slitaz.org/en/)

Puppy Linux
http://puppylinux.org/

[haqking]

Light Linux Distros (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1582027)

[drawkcab]

The gist of what folks are saying ^^^ is that Sabayon + gui is too heavy for a machine that only has 256 mb of ram.

In other words, you're going to have to go lighter than Lubuntu even. So Puppy, Slitaz, AntiX and the like are where you're going to have to go. You might be able to squeeze Crunchbang w/Open Box which would be preferable if it runs.

[gene simmons]

it runs ok,when it boots to terminal i type sudo gdm and the desktop comes up,i just want it to go to desktop right away not using terminal,hes not a linux guy or even a windows guy haha,it goes online and watchin avi clips works decent,he likes how it looks just not that easy to get to desktop,we are out of town very far and internet is sloooooow and restricted so i cant download any newer distros to try,i had this one on a disc and it worked so i installed it,i would like to use slitaz as i have tried that before.any tips on booting to gdm not terminal,thanx