You've to try out the startx command

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that probably means the graphics card (vga) was not setup correctly. you'll have to fix that from the console (this black dos like screen).

first login with your root user (at installation time you where asked to choose a root password, root is the name of the all powerful administrator user in GNU/Linux).

in the user name write root then hit enter in the password type the password you chose, don't worry if nothing appears while type just hit enter at the end

if you enter username and password correctly you'll get a command line prompt where you can type commands.

just type the command

XFdrake

then hit enter. note that the capital letters are important

this will open a text mode dialog to help you configure your graphics card, use the arrow keys, tab, space and enter to navigate, a bit of common sense and you're done. in most cases it will detect the card correctly for you, you just need to confirm it's choices.

after that try to reboot the system and see if it'll open the graphical interface correctly on it's own. to reboot you type the command

reboot

you don't really need to reboot tab3an, it's just easier. if you wanted you could logout from root, login with your normal user account and start the graphical interface manually.

cheers,
Alaa

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