Re: Help!

[antgel <antony@antgel.co.uk>]

Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:48:53AM -0400, George Boyce wrote:
> 
>>I'm not sure what to do from here! I typed in ENTER - no good. I tried
>>LOGON........still no good! Keeps
>>bringing me to  "username"@Debian1: ~$
> 
> 
> Sorry, this reply doesn't answer your question (the others do):
> 
> We've had a lot of these queries recently. Does that suggest the
> installation process needs to be adjusted slightly, to combat the
> assumption a GUI environment is installed by default? Or should we be
> pushing for people to read the installation docs before going ahead with
> it?

I raised a bug on this after being in #debian for a while.  325655 if
you're interested.  It is incredible how many people don't read the
install guide or the Reference.  It's not as if one is installing a
little program to work with their mobile phone.  This is an OS, for
goodness' sake.