Op Mon, 09 Jan 2017 05:10:11 +0100 schreef Tama McGlinn
<t.mcgl...@gmail.com>:
Dear Debian volunteers,
I hope you can help me with a problem I've been experiencing since
Debian Jessie; After doing a new installation, debian >boots, but only
presents me with a tty1 login screen, and no graphical session started.
Here's what I've tried so far:
-Different versions of debian: netinstall vs full CD, with and without
live, with and without nonfree, amd64 or i386 (it's >an i7 I'm trying to
install to; I've done lots of googling and found many people asking how
to tell architecture type, but >no real answers, so I'm going to stick
with my guess that amd64 is for 64 bit computers, and i386 is for 32 bit
computers, >and all the rest are for uncommon architectures that I will
never need.) - that gives 16 possibilities, of which I have >tried about
half but every option gives the same result.
-Different Methods of putting the iso on the usb stick: using `dd
if=isofile.iso of=/dev/sdc; sync` (after checking that's >the one with
gparted or fdisk -l) ; right clicking the isofile and choosing "open
with disk image writer" and "restoring" to >the usb stick ; using
mkusb(-dus). I'm doing this because my previous way, using unetbootin,
is said to be obsolete for the >latest version of debian, and because it
wasn't working. (the error message led me to the article or question
where I found >it was obsolete)
-Searching for other people with this problem; just a few results: Tried
`startx` and `xstart` - programs don't exist. `grep >EE
/var/log/Xorg.0.log` that file does not exist on the fresh install, it
does on all my other debian jessie installs which >do work.
-Tried with 2 usb sticks, these have been used in the past to install
debian jessie to the same computer, (both of them - I >install often) so
I don't know what is different but it's very unlikely both usb sticks
have become faulty.
I have a current workaround, which is to dd my current installation onto
the new harddisk, but I really want to have a clean >install, which
should go through the installer.
I hope someone here can help me; the documentation is not very clear on
how to "write the iso to usb" and I suspect that is >what I have done
incorrectly in this case.
Kind regards,
Tama
If you have an internet connection available in tty1 you can install a
desktop with:
(as root)
apt-get install tasksel
tasksel --list-tasks
choose your favorite desktop from the list and install it with:
tasksel install <favorite>-desktop
Floris
