New Debian installation and confused.

[Gregory Nowak]

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Sounds like you might be in x. What I would do is ctrl+alt+f1, login
as root including your root password, run telinit 2, and then once
you're back in text mode, change the default run level to 2 in
/etc/inittab. I don't know if you're in fact in x, and I haven't tried
this, so it may not work.

I find it interesting that you were able to login after choosing the
standard install. When I did that while installing debian on a virtual
machine about a week ago, choosing standard install happily got rid of
the speakup kernel already installed in the system during the kernel
selection stage, and didn't replace it with another one.  Also, as far
as I could tell, you don't get x/gnome/whatever in the standard
install, but you do get them in the desktop install. So, you might not
be in x at all, though it sounds like you are, or you mistakenly chose
desktop install when you meant to choose standard. 

I personally found when putting debian on my vm, that the best thing
that worked out for me was to not choose an install, just leaving the
minimal set of packages, and install what I needed after reboot by
hand, which of course brings in any needed dependencies as well. Hth.

Greg


On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:02:24PM -0400, Dan Murphy wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan Murphy" <mweeby at verizon.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:46 PM
> Subject: New Debian installation and confused.
> 
> 
> > Hello listers.
> > I recently downloaded the latest netinst iso from
> people.debian.org/shane
> > and after getting through the install, on my first boot, I think it puts
> > me into some graphical thing.
> > Speakup only says "blank", and it just beeps when I press enter.
> > How do I get back to a text console, and is there any info on the CD
> > describing how I should have done this differently.  I chose "standard
> > system" when I installed software.  Perhaps I should have used another
> > choice.
> > Help is appreciated.
> > thanks.
> >
> > dan Murphy <mweeby at verizon.net>
> > Skype ID: danmint
> > AIM:mweeby2000
> >
> 
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