[Server-devel] Newbie problems

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Wed Jul 22 01:31:22 EDT 2009


2009/7/22 Varun Arora <futuregenious at gmail.com>:
> I am a ICT consultant working in the South Pacific Islands. Sorry if you
> guys are tired of reading newbie problems. But I had a serious concern with
> installation of XS in a pilot deployment in Niue:
>
> I installed all packages including MySQL DB, X Window System, GNOME etc. on
> installation of XS 5.2. Unfortunately, after installation I tried to run
> MySQL and it did not run. It was not installed. X Windows did not seem to
> installed. I had checked both these during installation.

When installing the XS, please be sure to follow the instructions
carefully. Specifically #7 of
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Installing_the_Software

If you want to add other bits of software you need to do it after the
installation.

Daniel


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