On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 06:06:40PM +1000, Brenton Horne wrote: > Hi, > I have been trying to install Debian 8.1 on my virtual machine, from the > netinstall CD ISO. The machine has 64 GB HDD allocated to it and 1 GB RAM. > It also has 3D video acceleration enabled. Its video memory is 64 MB. The > one named debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso. The issue is that I set it to > install the following desktop environments: > * Cinnamon > * GNOME > * KDE > * LXDE > * XFCE
I presume that you're wanting to compare each of these? It's normal to only install one desktop environment, but they SHOULD co-exist peacefully. > during installation and it recorded that not all packages were installed > properly (although it spent hours and hours saying it was retrieving files > and installing them so I'm fairly confident it at least downloaded the > packages). I successfully installed grub on it after I received this > message. > I then rebooted but all I have is the command-line bash interface (tty1). > I ran `apt-get install sudo` and `apt-get update` as root user, the first > suggested that I should run the second. The second command (`apt-get > update`) gave me errors recorded in: [1]http://i.imgur.com/dRaGiY6.png. > How do I get past these errors and get into at least one of the GUI > desktop environments I selected? You don't appear to have any network connection in your VM, this is probably why the download was so slow. So, first of all, what is your network setup in VirtualBox? NAT should work with most setups. Next up, run "ip address" in the VM and check that eth0 has been given an address (If you are using NAT, expect a 10.0.x.y address). Lastly, type "cat /etc/resolv.conf" in the VM and see if the "nameserver" address looks sane (you can also try pinging it to see if you can reach your DNS server). > Thanks for your time, > Brenton > > References > > Visible links > 1. http://i.imgur.com/dRaGiY6.png -- For more information, please reread.
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