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Re: Debian Squeeze Installation



Joe wrote:
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:56:45 -0500
Roman Gelfand <rgelfand2@gmail.com> wrote:

When installing Squeeze, I chose standard system install and desktop
environment.  However, it boots in line mode.  How can I check if
desktop, in fact was installed?  how to enable it?  what is the name
of the of the gnome or kde packages?

Thanks in advance



I hate to say this, but in my experience, when this happens it's
because X is broken. I've never known a Debian installer to 'forget'
to install a desktop, but I've often had initial problems with X. As
already stated, try startx, but my guess is that won't work either.

It's probably something minor like the video card driver, but it's very
frustrating because of course the installer always manages to drive X
reasonably, using the basic frame buffer system.

Try cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log which is the latest log file on Sid, I
assume it's the same on Squeeze.

My preference is to immediately install mc (Midnight Commander) on a new
system, as it's a reasonably powerful file manager linked to a text
editor. If you use a desktop exclusively, getting around and fixing
things without it is heavy going.


I wholeheartedly agree. Except that the current mc for squeeze and sid is 4.0.7 which is very unfriendly in that it has moved to skin support of which there are none. Better stick with lenny which is 4.6.2 which is much friendlier.

Hugo


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