I cannot see GUI in Solaris8

[Guest_imported]

Hi Friends,

I installed Solaris8 on Intel machine. When installing it displayed the screen with color test.

But surprisingly, after it's installation, I cannot see any windows. It is normal as a command prompt interface.

Should I re install from scratch?!! Please advise.

Thanks in advance,

Praveen K.

 

[sramki]

There can be 2 possibility for not finding GUI

1. There may be a probs with the Xwindows or a probs with the graphical drivers .

2 . The CDE option may be disabled

so to enable it

From the root

in the prompt give

$ dtconf -e or dtconf -enable

move to /usr/dt/bin and then give

dtlogin start

This should help u start the CDE ( GUI ) .

hope thsi helps

regards
ramki