Well I installed Mandrake. I got an error installing package libxorg-x11-6.7.0-3mdk.i586.
I went back and determined what it was that was not installing correctly. It was listed as a “must have” on the installation guide so I decided to continue anyway; as I can always reinstall.
Well I now have a very powerful command line OS.
I learned how to go to the /etc/inittab file and change it to boot to the GUI instead. Before doing that; I learned the startx command and tried it. This gives me a series of no such file or directory errors.
So I’m going to reinstall mandrake again. In the meantime I’m downloading a centOS ISO and will grab a debian next.
Mandrake is supposed to be one of the easier flavors to install; so I’m going to at least get a graphical interface to work on it before moving on to another flavor.
Most likely I’ll blog about this too.
Updates to come
