I'm not running from a live CD. If I wanted that, I would go with Ubuntu which boots up talking. Alex Snow wrote: > running gnome from a live cd is going to be a bit painful, unless you > have a really fast cd-rom (at least 48x) and a reasonably fast > processor. > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:05:48AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm totally new to X and I have no idea what I'm doing. I am running >> grml 1.1rc1 and a 1.70 GHZ processor with 256 MB of RAM. I did >> "aptitude install gnome-orca" and it installed a bunch of things. I ran >> the Orca setup and it talked. What else do I need to do to start Gnome >> with speech? There is no program called gnome on my system. I tried >> "startx" but it just sits there and puts me on tty7 with no text. I >> tried grml-x to set up X and it wants to know what window manager to >> use. I tried putting in gnome but it couldn't find it. I finally >> randomly picked fluxbox but nothing. I tried again with openbox but >> still nothing. What do I need to do? What else do I need to install? >> What window manager should I use? If there's a web page somewhere I >> should be reading, please point me to it. I can run startx and it shows >> a bunch of startup messages with some warnings but that's it except >> switching me to tty7. I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to do. If I >> just run orca by itself after I run startx, I get an error that the >> display environment is not set. Any help is appreciated. Does it >> matter what window manager I pick? >>
