New Debian installation and confused.

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

First question, do you plan to use Gnome?

If not, you can remove some packages and get the system back to a text login.

You need to remove the package called the display manager.  It is probably gdm, but it might also be xdm or kdm.

Try typing:

apt-get remove gdm 

as root.  If it succeeds, the next time you boot you will be at tty1 in text mode.
If it fails, try running it with xdm or kdm.

Hope this helps.

          Kenny