Re: Installation problem
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 22:36:06 -0700
David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/19 4:45 PM, Anne wrote:
> > Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed
> > properly.
> >
> > What I have done so far is to
> >
> > Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then
> >
> > 1. download the first DVD of 10.1.0
> > 2. used rufus to put it on a thumb drive
> > 3. Booted from the thumb drive and selected "graphical Install"
> > 4. followed the prompts
> > 5. Program said OS was installed and to reboot the system
> > 6. reboot
> > 7. Debian page showed up and I selected the first selection.
> > 8. after a bit of doing things I get a black screen with a small
> > cursor in the upper left of the screen
> > 9. a power off or ctrl alt del is required to go further.
> > 10. after reboot I get the Debian screen and select windows and I
> > am up and running again.
> >
> > I have done this three times
> >
> > Twice with the DVD debian-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> > and once with the DVD firmware-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> >
> > results were the same each time...
> >
> > What am I doing wrong???
>
> You are headed down the path of "dual boot", which is unnecessarily
> difficult and risks damaging your Windows installation.
>
Doesn't have to be. I bought a Win10 netbook last year, with no legacy
BIOS option, and stretch installed on it on a second drive without a
problem. I hadn't actually intended to use it dual-boot, but I found
that the grub menu contained a Windows entry, and it worked easily.
>
> If you have a Windows computer and you want to experiment with GNU/
> Linux , you are better off installing virtual machine hosting
> software and downloading a pre-built virtual machine. Obvious
> choices include Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMware
> Workstation Player:
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/
>
> https://www.vmware.com/
What I'd suggest first is trying a live version of Debian, perhaps
Knoppix https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html and preferably
also straight Debian, to see if there are any hardware issues. Doing a
graphical install does not guarantee that the graphics drivers in the
installed Debian will work, I've had trouble in that area.
--
Joe
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