Re: help with installation?
On Mon 23 Dec 2019 at 22:49:03 +0800, kaye n wrote:
> I MESSED UP THE THREAD! SORRY ABOUT THAT!
>
> Hi. I'm the OP. I've been installing different distros the easy way for a
> few years now, that is why want to try the minimalist method as Joe
> suggested.
> Had quite a few problems unfortunately.
>
> I followed the following steps found in this link:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.en.html#usb-copy-isohybrid
>
> The CD or DVD image you choose should be written directly to the USB stick,
> overwriting its current contents. For example, when using an existing
> GNU/Linux system, the CD or DVD image file can be written to a USB stick as
> follows, after having made sure that the stick is unmounted:
>
> # cp debian.iso /dev/sdX
> # sync
What you have done is exactly what you shold do. Tick this step.
> When it got to the part where it says:
>
> At the moment, only the core of the system is installed. To tune the system
> to your needs, you can choose to install one or more of the following
> predefined collections of software.
>
> Under this message, instead of showing tick boxes of the different desktop
> environments to choose from, along with web server, print server, SSH
> server, standart system utilities, there was only one tick box, the one for
> standard system utilities, that's it, just one. Is that normal?
It most definitely is not normal.
> Before this window though, there was an internet connection setup.
> I had to manually enter ESSID, which I assume is the same as ESSID, and the
> password. I double checked and triple checked the eessid and the password,
> but it would not connect.
Any chance you can use ethernet to install?
> Despite being a GNU/Linux user for years, it seems I am still not educated
> enough to do this kind of installation, but I would like to learn.
>
> What I want to do is finish the initial installation without any desktop
> environments, which probably means I would log in to a command prompt. I
> guess then I would install icewm via command?
>
> By the way, I used debian-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Try something from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
--
Brian.
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