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Hooookayyyy...

Booted from DSL CD.

Got a nice picture of a penguin. It went through all the right sort of checks and scans, until...

xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.xauthority

giving up

xinit: No such file or directory (Errno2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (Errno2): Server error

Then it gave me a command prompt line. Any ideas? What's a boy to do?

Not sure, but you may want to try the CD on another PC. Did you do the chksum on the download?

different computers require different types of x server, and also different x settings. What type of computer are you using?

3rd world computer

PII 333Mhz 64MB

I've made progress. Looking through the forum, I figured that xsetup.sh might be 'A Good Idea'. Did this. Then startx...

Result. Desktop. Immediately overlaid by an html page I couldn't move my mouse on.

Ran xsetup gain. Got the right mouse port by trial and error. Still got the .html page, though. I figure there's probably a desktop behind there somewhere. Can't close it, though.

Next step...try changing the screen resolution, so at least I get the Close box?

Hold down the ALT key and use the mouse to drag the window down until you can see the CLOSE box.

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