On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 22:36:06 -0700 David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/19 4:45 PM, Anne wrote: > > Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed > > properly. > > > > What I have done so far is to > > > > Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then > > > > 1. download the first DVD of 10.1.0 > > 2. used rufus to put it on a thumb drive > > 3. Booted from the thumb drive and selected "graphical Install" > > 4. followed the prompts > > 5. Program said OS was installed and to reboot the system > > 6. reboot > > 7. Debian page showed up and I selected the first selection. > > 8. after a bit of doing things I get a black screen with a small > > cursor in the upper left of the screen > > 9. a power off or ctrl alt del is required to go further. > > 10. after reboot I get the Debian screen and select windows and I > > am up and running again. > > > > I have done this three times > > > > Twice with the DVD debian-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > > and once with the DVD firmware-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > > > > results were the same each time... > > > > What am I doing wrong??? > > You are headed down the path of "dual boot", which is unnecessarily > difficult and risks damaging your Windows installation. > Doesn't have to be. I bought a Win10 netbook last year, with no legacy BIOS option, and stretch installed on it on a second drive without a problem. I hadn't actually intended to use it dual-boot, but I found that the grub menu contained a Windows entry, and it worked easily. > > If you have a Windows computer and you want to experiment with GNU/ > Linux , you are better off installing virtual machine hosting > software and downloading a pre-built virtual machine. Obvious > choices include Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMware > Workstation Player: > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/ > > https://www.virtualbox.org/ > > https://www.vmware.com/ What I'd suggest first is trying a live version of Debian, perhaps Knoppix https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html and preferably also straight Debian, to see if there are any hardware issues. Doing a graphical install does not guarantee that the graphics drivers in the installed Debian will work, I've had trouble in that area. -- Joe
