Debian linux

[Andre]

Hey, I have been through your help files and cannot find think one thing Ive been trying to do... Well i have installed Debian and created 2 accounts (root and my own). So anyway it starts up(eveything is fine there) and before it boots up a sort of dos comes up.. it asked to login, so i login either to root or my other one and it says something like this [Root]* or [Myname@Myname] and then i can type commands after that. now im assuming that there is a command to access the debian window and actually get into it, so do you know what it is? Please can you help, i want to get this up and running asap. thanks Andre