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Re: The Debian DVD

I did another test on virtualbox, everything went fine there despite using the mirrors that I used in my hardware installation, so the mirrors are not the problem.
Yes I have AMD graphics which require non-free firmware but mate and gnome did not complain  so to speak.  The problem was only with KDE and LXQT.
It seems that the firmware might be the issue. I will do another test on a laptop that does not need non-free firmware. 

And no wifi is not the issue.
As for the standard live iso, it does the same with the network, it has a bug or a missconfiguration, regardless of the firmware, rendering it useless. 

On 7/7/20 10:06 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:

Hi Ervin,

Please keep the mailing list in CC too - other people may help or
benefit from the conversation...

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:54:34PM +0200, Ervin Dine wrote:

I am using the same computer that I have used before with Debian and I have
installed Debian just fine even in the other previous 10 versions.

OK, and what hardware *is* it please? Does it have AMD graphics, for
example?


I came across this interesting bug in 10.3, for instance I could install
gnome or mate without a problem, lxde without a problem but when I installed
lxqt always the same result, I would end up with a terminal and not with a
graphic lxqt.

Now the same after 10.4 started to happen with kde, I tested the network cd
as well, same thing. strange.

My wifi is recognized by the free firmware. I never had any problems with it,
for instance i can connect to it using the Debian installer just fine.

Right.


Note that I am not using any live images, I am using the dvd and today I used
the network cd, thinking perhaps the dvd was the problem. I had Debian
Stretch before and even before that Jessie, I used the DVD and did not
encounter any installation problems.

Note something, I installed KDE, ended up with a command line instead of the
graphic KDE. I installed gnome-core then using the command line and I could
get both gnome and kde working. Something in the DVD messes up the graphics
when using one of these desktop environments.

As for the standard iso, you know there is mate iso, kde iso, and a standard
iso.

Ummm, no. That sounds like you're talking about the live images. We
*don't* have a "standard" DVD installer image, just a "standard" live
image. We also don't have desktop-specific DVD installer images.

Please try again with the normal installer image from

   http://get.debian.org/images/release/10.4.0/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-10.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

and see if that works better for you?
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