jmill00
January 23rd, 2017, 01:58 PM
I have an old Dell that I was running as only a file server with a obsolete version of ubuntu server. 9 dot something I think. The hard drive died and I am now trying to install 16.04 desktop. The installation completes without error, but when I boot it seems to start up but I get no gui. The cursor is present and responds to the mouse. I believe it is also seeing the keyboard, but no characters are printed. Processor is an Intel 2.4Ghz --- 1.5Gb of memory buss speed 800Mhz --- 250Gb SATA hard drive for the OS and (2) 250Gb hard drives for data.
I installed the 32bit 16.04.1 server software and it worked, but I would like to be able to do also use this as a normal desktop from time to time. I was hoping to just install samba on the desktop version. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
I installed the 32bit 16.04.1 server software and it worked, but I would like to be able to do also use this as a normal desktop from time to time. I was hoping to just install samba on the desktop version. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?