Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-28 Thread Chris Lale
Colin Perkins wrote: Hi everybody, I have installed Debian and logged -in ; all I see is a prompt which I do not have not have a clue as to how to use it ! I had expected a graphical interface to appear i.e. KDE or gnome - I was informed that KDE is supplied with Debian. Have I installed

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:06, Colin Perkins wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have installed Debian and logged -in ; all I see is a prompt which > I do not have not have a clue as to how to use it ! Debian has an underlying command line base, on top of which you can put a Graphical Layer. As y

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-25 Thread Michael Endsley
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 06:47:43AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:28:03PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:14:21PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Hi Roberto, > > > I have seen various 3rd party bits of documentation about "You just > > > inst

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:28:03PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:14:21PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi Roberto, > > I have seen various 3rd party bits of documentation about "You just > > installed Debian. Here's what to do next and answers to questions like > > 'w

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:28:03 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. You did not mention which version, so I will assum you installed > Etch. Now, if you got the etch installer, I will guess that you got > it from here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ As you

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:14:21PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Roberto, > I have seen various 3rd party bits of documentation about "You just > installed Debian. Here's what to do next and answers to questions like > 'where's my X?". And it seems people still miss this info on the Debian > site.

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:13:47AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:06:07PM +, Colin Perkins wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I have installed Debian and logged -in ; all I see is a prompt which I do > > not > > have

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Colin Perkins wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have installed Debian and logged -in ; all I see is a prompt which I do > not have not have a clue as to how to use it ! > > I had expected a graphical interface to appear i.e. KDE or gnome - I > was informed that KDE is supplied with Debian. > > Hav

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-24 Thread Dan H.
Bhasker C V wrote: > If you had told yes there (checked the box) , then you must be able to > see graphics by command > $ startx > If this works then you probably want to check to enable startup of > /etc/init.d/gdm in your runlevel. > something like (say your runlevel is 2) > then yo

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-24 Thread Bhasker C V
id 9F1872474E; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:13:47 -0500 (EST) > Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:13:47 -0500 > From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Installation of Debian by disk > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:06:07PM +, Colin Perkins wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have installed Debian and logged -in ; all I see is a prompt which I do > not > have not have a clue as to how to use it ! > > I had expected a graphical interface to appear i.e. KDE or gnome - I > was inform

Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-24 Thread Colin Perkins
Hi everybody, I have installed Debian and logged -in ; all I see is a prompt which I do not have not have a clue as to how to use it ! I had expected a graphical interface to appear i.e. KDE or gnome - I was informed that KDE is supplied with Debian. Have I installed Debian incorrectly ? I