Colin, You have to find out if you installed the KDE and gnome packages. These will get installed during the second stage of installation when the "aptitude" presents you with a dialog box which will ask you to select installation of Desktop Environment. 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 you must have a link like S99gdm -> ../init.d/gdm under the /etc/rc2.d directory
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 15:06 +0000, 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 Debian incorrectly ? I am very much a beginner with Linux. > > Cheers, Colin Perkins > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? 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I am very much a beginner with Lin= > ux. > >=20 > Yes. Debian is installed correctly. Out of curiousity, what > documentation have you looked at so far? > > Regards, > > -Roberto > > --=20 > Roberto C. Sanchez > http://people.connexer.com/~roberto > http://www.connexer.com > > --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" > Content-Description: Digital signature > Content-Disposition: inline > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFt3er1snWssAFC08RAhTsAJ0eOF2zqftRGW61CF/QeWYANXj+kgCfUm8y > YC0B9pwQr/LzCtLVlPuOzHU= > =Rvea > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0-- > > -- Bhasker C V Registered Linux user: #306349 (counter.li.org) The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
