What Video card do you have? I experienced annoyance with AMD video card/driver. If that is the case, you can search on google, or ask the mailling list again for how to install the required firmware.
Unfortunately, it is not smooth. On 14.09.19 01:45, 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??? > > Anne >