On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 17:58:57 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > On 7/11/15, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > Reinstall; one partition for everything. > > > > The base system is installed next. You have no control over this. > > > > When it comes to installing other software do not install anything. > > Also, deselect anything which is marked as selected. > > > > Complete installation and report back in similar detail to previously. > > Okay, just finished it. Had to uncheck the default kraft dinner > environment, printer, and system utilities. Booted just fine and now > I'm looking at a normal getty, without the crash. I'm inclined to concur > with the collected thinking here - that it's a video problem and passing > on kde solved it. I'll probably install the other two just to prove it and > get the utilities (since there's likely to be stuff in there that I want).
I'd be inclined to do apt-get install xorg fwvm and use 'startx' to test the video in X. Logs are in /var/log. > So thanks very much for the guidance. Now, one more question, if I > may: What is the shortcut means to installing those two packages > without unnecessarily going back and doing the whole thing anew? Please read the tasksel manual. '--new-install' is what you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/12072015082911.d8aac4642...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
