OmniCloud
March 14th, 2010, 12:41 AM
Wasup Community... trying to split up partition between Windows and Linux...
I'm trying out a few distros for my wife's hp laptop. (AMD 64bit with ATI graphics card) I have Live CD's of the latest Ubuntu and Xubuntu. Started off with Xubuntu and the live CD detected everything very well so I installed it and split up the drive between Xubuntu and vista using the install manager. Everything went smoothly...
Windows is fine, but after logging into the default Kernel (generic etc..) it doesn't load the actual Xfce desktop, but just leaves me at the command promp ttyl I think. I tried to run "startxfce4" and got an error that no drivers were detected.
there's also a error when i first boot up that something couldn't be mounted.
I'll re-post the error info in full when I get back, but where should i get started? How do i get into the actual desktop environment? I also can't get into root, as I don't know what the default password is, so i can't install anything. Maybe I'm just thinking too much into it lol..Where do I start?
Thank you very much in advance
I'm trying out a few distros for my wife's hp laptop. (AMD 64bit with ATI graphics card) I have Live CD's of the latest Ubuntu and Xubuntu. Started off with Xubuntu and the live CD detected everything very well so I installed it and split up the drive between Xubuntu and vista using the install manager. Everything went smoothly...
Windows is fine, but after logging into the default Kernel (generic etc..) it doesn't load the actual Xfce desktop, but just leaves me at the command promp ttyl I think. I tried to run "startxfce4" and got an error that no drivers were detected.
there's also a error when i first boot up that something couldn't be mounted.
I'll re-post the error info in full when I get back, but where should i get started? How do i get into the actual desktop environment? I also can't get into root, as I don't know what the default password is, so i can't install anything. Maybe I'm just thinking too much into it lol..Where do I start?
Thank you very much in advance