I am trying the Mini 6.0 live CD. Same problem here - the CD boots into a CLI on my DELL Latitude E6500.
I tried "startx" (no such program seems to exist out-of-the-box), "lscpi" (doesn't exist either) and trying to "sudo apt-get install gdm" fails with errors about inability to connect to one of the repositories.
I found a "startlxde" program, but that (as most other programs starting with x) fail with something like "can't use DISPLAY".
On an ancient IBM ThinkPad A21m however, the same live CD boots straight into the GUI.
Note that I'm a GNU/Linux noob (coming from Windows) and need help with the basics here!
