New Debian installation and confused.

[Dan Murphy]

Well I can now get to a text console consistently with ctrl-alt-f1, but
when looking at /etc/inittab, it appears the default runlevel is already
set as 2
I do like some of the changes made in the installer, though.
I'm sure I'll have more questions as I plod along here.
Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: New Debian installation and confused.


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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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