Well, The good new is that I found a command on YouTube $ sudo tasksel ran that with several choices I am now sending this email from my GUI based desktop. copied the .Thunderbird hidden folder to my /home/andrew and after 4.6Gb had transferred I started Thunderbird and all of my email addresses are exactly as they were yesterday. Overjoyed, the learning curve was steep, but worth it. Thank you very much for your assistance. Now I need to plug in my old SATA drive and copy my data to one of my data drives. Small thing, when I was setting the partitions the system did not like /data on two separate drives so for the moment one is /data0 and the othe is /data1. If I load one of the drives with my data, as soon as RAID is setup will that data copy across to the other drive? And the next step is RAID Thanks again Andrew On 23/2/19 3:07 pm, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 02:30:46PM +1100, Andrew Greig wrote:
Unfortunately I am stuck in tty1, I thought that the GUI was on tty7, but I have forgotten how to get there. I thought it used to be CTRL ALT F7
If you have a display manager (xdm, gdm, kdm, lightdm, etc) installed, it will start up automatically and give you a graphical login.
I have a system, now, but not usable by me at this stage.
Did you install gnome or kde (or xfce or whatever desktop environment you prefer)? And all the GUI apps you intend to use?
This may be because you chose to do a "server" install. I have no idea what Ubuntu actually means by that, but I'd guess it doesn't include X or other GUI stuff because they're generally not needed on "servers".
But it's not a big problem, nothing to worry about. You can always apt-get install whatever you need, whether you chose a "desktop" or a "server" install. It's the same OS, just with different programs installed by default.
craig
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