12.04 boots into terminal after first install. How to boot into GUI permanently?

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Published on 2012-11-06T04:28:52Z Indexed on 2012/11/06 5:19 UTC
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As a person with a quite limited CLI experience I congratulate myself on installing Ubuntu on an ancient non-pae Fujitsu Amilo M1425 thru the network with mini.iso. However upon reboot I'm met w/ the following:

Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ubuntu-fujitsu tty1

ubuntu-fujitsu login:

for which my specified login during setup is not accepted. (I'm quite sure its correct) Let's assume this screen is passed, how to start the GUI and make it the permanent option during boot? This box will return to a mostly comp-illiterate person, for which the existence of ubuntu will be an enough shock already. Wouldn't wanna leave him w/o the GUI.

Other posts here mention the command startx but I probably need a login in the first place.. So "why won't it accept my login & how can I make the GUI-boot permanent?" is my question. Thanks in advance.

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