fc3 on old 7GB HD with 64MB Ram

[Paul Howarth]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
>>You can get some diagnostics on what's happening with startx as follows:
>>
>>$ startx >X.out 2>X.err
>>
>>Any console output generated by startx will go to X.out and any error
>>messages will go to X.err. If it still hangs you can reboot and look in
>>those files for any clues as to what's going wrong.
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> Thanks, but how will I find those files afterwards? I'm not too hot on command 
> line - I can navigate but don't know how to search for a file... can you help 
> with that?

They will be in the directory that you ran "startx" from (your home 
directory if you've just logged in). This is just regular output 
redirection, nothing fancy about it.

Paul.