Hi Bomis,

That last post of mine was sort of aimed at this question:


> OK this maybe the oldest question out there, but the
> archives are down.
>
> When I boot up I get a boot prompt (d:b / #)
>
> What do I do here? It gives me a list of suggestions but
> none of them are "start dyne:bolic," etc? I tried typing
> 'login' which gave me a login prompt, but after I did it
> buzzed me back to the prompt "d:b ~ #"
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks,
>
> LZ

But to answer your questions, nano is a console text editer so you run
it from the terminal,
and startx is the command used to start the X server which gives you
the graphical desktop.

Ryan.



Ryan,
>
> If I may ask some ignorant questions,
>
> Where and when do I type nano? Er...from the desktop, I use the
> terminal? I'm guessing.
>
> What is startx and how do I try it?
>
> > Hi, do you know what kind of video card you have?
>
> No idea. I might be able to look that up later using XP. But I'm using
> Mint right now.
>
>