Re: I'm so lost
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:46:28AM -0600, thedoghouse@sunvalley.net wrote:
> Hi guys. I'm sure you get sick of fielding questions from people that
> must seem braindead but I need some suggestions.
>
> I have made the big leap for me and installed Debian. I had a few
> problems (once it crashed during install) but I'm there, I'm at bash
> and I don't know what to do. I thought that installing the
> home/stand alone package would get me to something a little more
> familier than bash (like some sort of GUI) but I was wrong. I am
> trying to understand the book that I bought, but I fear it was
> intended for someone a little more advanced then me. (The book is
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed-From Knowledge to Mastery) My
> goal would be to get something like GNOME installed along with
> some user applications. I simply do not know where to start.
> Currently I am not logged in as root and I do not even know how to
> shut down the system. One other problem I noticed during install
> and in bash is that the keyboard is a little trigger happy. When
> trying to press one character, I would press multiples, which
> caused a lot of frustration when trying to come up with a root
> password.
Look into the package "tasksel" to setup X.
$ man tasksel
kent
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