Quoting anthony baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, Folks, > I'm a new Debian user with only about 9 months of redhat use for Linux > experience in general. > I have just installed a "a base system" on a machine I built, > but could not mark packages on the package list, for some reason, > and now have only a shell installed. > I would like to have a gui, like kde, and be able to install > more packages, but in the shell I do have, when I cd to /mnt/ > nothing is recognized there, with the cd in the drive, so I am > not even able to see what is on the cds to install anything. > Tried to $cd /mnt/cdrom (with deb cd in drive) and got no such directory > message. > I'm lost, but this system is useless to me if all I get is a > terminal/shell. > HELP! > > tony
Well, first of all, did you ever get your network setup? [1] If so, from command line: # apt-get install x-windows-system then # apt-get install kde As far as what's going on with /mnt, debian (in my experience) does not automount too much unless you tell it to, and the cdrom is in the root directory under /cdrom, as is floppy IIRC (I'm at work and I don't remember.) You'll have to edit /etc/fstab if you want to mount things. So maybe # mount /cdrom $ cd /cdrom and then ls as you see fit :) I had no problem with Debian finding my cdrom the first time around. [1] If your network is not set up, we'll have to start somewhere else, so let us know ;) Erinn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
