My old laptops CD Rom drive has died and its getting on a bit anyway so I thought I'd give SUSE a run on it (my first linux installation! YAY!)
So I took the HardDrive out of my laptop and connected it to my main computer. Downloaded and burned the SUSE install CD, installed it to the laptop HardDrive and it was all working amazingly.
I wipped out the HardDrive from the desktop, plugged it all back into the laptop and booted it up.
As I expected, there are a few problems.
Firstly, it wont boot normally... just shows alot of crazy ASCII text when I select LINUX from the green SUSE boot menu. This I expected.
So I select Failsafe this had some problems with it hanging, so I changed ide=nodma to ide=off and it boots to the linux prompt without problem.
I log in and try to start KDE, but it gives me a large error:
[code:1]xset: unable to open display ""
xset: unable to open display ""
xset: unable to open display ""
xsetroot: unable to open display ''
xset: unable to open display ""
xset: unable to open display ""
ksplash: cannot connect to X server
kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can't connect kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.[/code:1]
then dumps me back at the linux prompt.
Any idea what I can do to sort this out?
Thanks,
Mark
p.s. I hope I posted in the right place!