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pabc
November 15th, 2009, 02:39 PM
I have an old portege 3440ct - P3 500mhz and 64mb ram.

It has no CDROM and cant boot from thumb drive.

It had win2k on it so I grabbed uNetbootin for windows and got it to install xubuntu 9.10 via the net install.

Great - it rebooted and started the install downloading files on the go but after it finished and rebooted it's gone to a shell rather than a nice GUI. I suspect I've selected the wrong version from the installer but thought I'd plumped for the xubuntu desktop.

So now I'm a bit lost - how do I turn the shell into a nice xfce gui?

edit - 'sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop' seems like a good place to start...

darkod
November 15th, 2009, 02:46 PM
Can this help?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=523343

Also:
http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1826.msg23528;topicseen

pabc
November 15th, 2009, 03:37 PM
all sorted;

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

got me a desktop from reboot and I can stick everything else on from there easily.

Thanks for the suggestions