On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 08:46 +0200, john doe wrote: > 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.
Welcome to Debian. I suspect your installation, from either of the sources you mention, is salvageable. And I think the advice here from john doe is a good continuation point; it appears you have succeeded in building a very nearly successful Windows/Linux dual boot setup. As a first "next step" I suggest the following: When you see the "Debian page" - that is the Grub boot menu - press the 'e' key. This will present the boot control instructions for the default boot into your Linux in a form you can edit using the arrow keys to move the cursor, backspace to erase, and normal keys to add things. Locate the line beginning "linux." This probably has the word "quiet" at or near the end, which prevents display of normal boot messages that do not report serious problems; erase it and press control-x or the F10 key to continue the boot. You should see messages as the system boots and initializes Linux. The last of them are likely to provide information about the reason the system initialization does not complete. They may be self explanatory, but if not, you can post them here and they may help others to provide additional assistance. Regards, Tom Dial > > -- > John Doe
