Re: help

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

frederick c woodruff wrote:

> Well thank you for help,I used su to get past my name @ debian$,now Im
> stuck at the next step,like I said before I am new at this,now I am
> getting debian:/home/desktop#,I tried some commands I thought would work
> they did not,can someone help please what command do I need please,like
> I said I am very new at this,trying to get logged on to sarge.new
> install.
>  
Regrettably, the above paragraph doesn't make much sense.

It vaguely sounds like you had already logged in as a normal user on 
your previous email, and now you've su'd into root, and you've created a 
directory named "/home/desktop" and cd'd into it.

But it is unlikely that you've created a directory, being new at this. 
It is also unlikely that su'ing got you "past your name @ debian". More 
likely, you've mistyped "/home/desktop" for "/home/frederick/Destop", 
and you're not being precise in your descriptions, so that we wind up 
being confused about what you're trying to say.

Let me suggest this:

type "exit" until you're at a prompt that looks like this (don't worry 
if the details are not quite the same):

> Debian GNU/Linux sarge debian tty1
>
> debian login:


Now, log in with the word "root"; you'll then be asked a passcode 
("password" is the term used during the installation, I believe)); 
provide the passcode you gave the system during the install.

You are now logged into a virtual terminal as root.

Run these commands:

> aptitude update
> aptitude install x-window-system kde

Now reboot with the command "shutdown -r now".

When the system comes back up, you should be looking at a graphical 
login screen, where you can log in as your normal user, and where you're 
likely to feel more comfortable than where you are at now.

--
Kent