Ubuntu installed - left at CLI

[Ari Torhamo]

to, 2004-12-23 kello 23:38 -0800, Matt Zimmerman kirjoitti:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 02:03:03AM +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> 
> > I hope there is someone present on the list, because this is kind of urgent. I just finnished installing Ubuntu on my brothers PC and I can't get to GNOME. When I start the system, the process stops at the command line. The last thing I see on the boot-up list (don't know what I should call it) is "* Checking battery state  [OK]" and then I'm at the command prompt. Nothing unusual happend during the installation. This has happend a couple of times before (at previous installations in different machines), but at those times the system booted to GNOME after first restart (sudo shutdown -h now).
> > 
> > Please hurry and help me because I'm writing this on Windoze XP :-( Thanks! (and my brother looks critical :)
> 
> Sounds like you did a custom install instead of the default desktop install.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz


I have installed Ubuntu five times before this insident and they all
were normal installations. I don't rememeber that anything was different
this time - I think I started the installation with "Enter" and then I
was asked to choose the locale setting. From there on too I don't
remember anything strange. Is it possible to do a custom installation
without noticing any difference from previous normal installations?

Ari