Re: Boot Manager won't Boot to Linux

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From: Thomas A. Kyle
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:00

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> David Schulz wrote:
> <snip>
> > P.S.     When I run 'startx' it fails telling me I need to create a
> > config file.  Any help on what should be in the config file or even
> > better how to automatically generate one would also be much appreciated.

	Have you configured XFree86?  Try running xf86config if you 
didn't do that immediately after installing everything.  You'll need to 
know everything about your video card and monitor so you don't watch your 
Linux box go up in smoke. =)

"Real computer scientists don't comment their code - The identifiers
are so long they can't afford the disk space."

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From: "Thomas A. Kyle" <s993674@jinx.umsl.edu>
Subject: Re: Boot Manager won't Boot to Linux
Date: 1996/11/15
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