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Posted: Sep. 01 2006,00:38 QUOTE
Greetings,

I apologize ahead of time for the newbish question -

When DSL boots for me it goes to the bash-2.05b# command prompt.  What is the command to get to the desktop?

**edit** When I boot it from the virtual machine in Windows it works just fine - goes right to the desktop.  Is there a possibility that something is going wrong when I boot from it? **edit**

Thanks a ton!!
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Posted: Sep. 01 2006,05:07 QUOTE
You probably encountered an error upon your native boot...
if possible, look out for them next time you start it up and record em here.
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Posted: Sep. 01 2006,06:15 QUOTE
which version of DSL are you running ?
are you using any boot options ?
do you know what video hardware you have ?

is there anything in dmesg showing problems ?
bash# dmesg | more

also what does the lspci command show for your video hardware ?
bash# lspci
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Posted: Sep. 01 2006,11:01 QUOTE
I'm using dsl-3.0.1-embedded on a Centon 512 Thumb drive.  
I've formated the thumb drive with the HP Drive Key Boot Utility.  Using syslinux 3.20 as the bootloader.
I'm booting with the default options (haven't changed anything.)
Video card = PNY GeForce FX 5500 128MB AGP

I am not able to try the commands you mentioned at this point - I've put Puppy Linux on the drive and it seems to work perfectly.  I'd rather use DSL though.  I have a feeling it could be a problem with the way the drive was formatted?  The HP tool put what looked to be a bootloader on the drive - Puppy Linux did not require you to use the tool to format it - it didn't require any extra effor on my part (a big plus :P.)

Thanks for your help

Dan
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