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.
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/
David
