Re: New user having trouble with new install
On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 17:58:57 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:
> On 7/11/15, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Reinstall; one partition for everything.
> >
> > The base system is installed next. You have no control over this.
> >
> > When it comes to installing other software do not install anything.
> > Also, deselect anything which is marked as selected.
> >
> > Complete installation and report back in similar detail to previously.
>
> Okay, just finished it. Had to uncheck the default kraft dinner
> environment, printer, and system utilities. Booted just fine and now
> I'm looking at a normal getty, without the crash. I'm inclined to concur
> with the collected thinking here - that it's a video problem and passing
> on kde solved it. I'll probably install the other two just to prove it and
> get the utilities (since there's likely to be stuff in there that I want).
I'd be inclined to do
apt-get install xorg fwvm
and use 'startx' to test the video in X. Logs are in /var/log.
> So thanks very much for the guidance. Now, one more question, if I
> may: What is the shortcut means to installing those two packages
> without unnecessarily going back and doing the whole thing anew?
Please read the tasksel manual. '--new-install' is what you want.
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