HELP Ubuntu server install

[Kit Goins]

Ok...if I must install the desktop version...is it possible
(after install) to then install all the servers?

mandriva allows you to have a kde or gnome desktop
and still run servers...is this possible in Ubuntu?

On 6/11/07, jim barnes <mail.list.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 11 June 2007 17:01, Kit Goins wrote:
> > I tried installing Ubuntu 7.04 server edition
> > today, as a dual-boot machine along with win XP
> >  but when I rebooted...and I selected ubuntu,
> > it booted to a text-based login.
> >
>
> As expected.
>
> > Then i couldn't login as root...only as the user i setup
> > during install, and still only had a text-based system.
> > What happened to the GUI desktop?
> >
>
> The root account is not active by default. To activate it, set a password:
> $sudo passwd
>
> > why couldn't I see a GUI desktop...and what's the default
> > root password?
> >
>
> You installed a server did you not? If you want a GUI consider a desktop
> install.
>
> > Plus how do you uninstall GRUB after deleting partitions
> > in windows XP partition manager?
>
> ???
>
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