New to debian

[Johan <johanscheepers@hypermail.co.za>]

Hi,

I am absolutely new to debian but not to linux. (Mandrake,  Suse, 
Ubuntu) the easy ones?

I have debian "sarge" 14 cd's.

While installing I almost thought that I was installing ubuntu up to a
point.
All cd's is registered in apt-get (2 to 14).

That point is this installation only go as far as the command line.

Does not even have startx.

Usually I end up with a graphical interface. 

Obviously this time not. Ok, I did some surfing but the documentation
tells me to do what actually has already being done by the installer.

Please I would like to get further than the command line.

Kindly how to proceed?

Thanks

Johan.