On 9/14/2019 7:36 AM, David Christensen 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. > > > 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/ >
https://qemu.org Given that you didn't crash your system with multiboot and that you see the prompt to select which OS to choose, I would keep the multiboot going. Have you turned off fastboot on windows? You shouldn't see D on Windows but somespace that Windows can't use. -- John Doe
