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On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 03:39:59PM -0800, anthony baldwin wrote: > I'm a new Debian user with only about 9 months of redhat use for Linux > experience in general. I have just installed a "a base system" on a > machine I built, but could not mark packages on the package list, for > some reason, and now have only a shell installed. I would like to Normal for a fresh Debian install. A base system is quite simply a base system: just enough enable you to install what you need. > have a gui, like kde, and be able to install more packages, but in the So, you want X, and with KDE it seems. You should look in /usr/share/doc/apt or /usr/share/doc/dpkg for information about installing packages. > shell I do have, when I cd to /mnt/ nothing is recognized there, with By default, on a Debian system, /mnt is an empty mountpoint. > the cd in the drive, so I am not even able to see what is on the cds > to install anything. Tried to $cd /mnt/cdrom (with deb cd in drive) > and got no such directory message. Debian does not do any auto-mounting by default. Also, the cdrom's mount point is /cdrom, not /mnt/cdrom (unless you edit /etc/fstab and add the mount point). To read a cdrom, mount the cdrom with "mount /cdrom" and then cd into /cdrom. You should also add your non-root user to the group cdrom, if you want to be able to mount/umount and use it fully as non-root. > I'm lost, but this system is useless to me if all I get is a terminal/shell. Debian, by default, does not install X. You can easily install X by apt-get installing the following packages (I think that's all of them): 1) xlibs 2) xbase-clients 3) xfonts-base 4) xfonts-scalable 5) xfonts-75dpi or xfonts-100dpi 6) xserver-common 7) xserver-xfree86 8) xterm 9) twm (or any other window manager) 10) xfree86-common Since you mentioned KDE earlier, 11) kde apt-get will probably want to pull in some other packages to satisfy depenancies, let it. You will then have to configure X. You may also want to use a frontend such as aptitude for package management. Once you have aptitude running, take a look in the doc section; you might want to install some of the contents, such as man-db and manpages if they aren't yet installed. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]