I think that you may have better luck with this ISO
firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
download from
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/
I am not familiar with that USB creation method. Lately I have been
using gnome-multi-writer ...kinda slow but it works an fits my skill set.
As for desktops I prefer Mate.
best of luck, happy holidays
On 12/23/19 6:49 AM, 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
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?
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.
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
Thank you for your time!
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 10:45 PM kaye n <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 4:11 PM Andrei POPESCU
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Jo, 19 dec 19, 20:13:42, kaye n wrote:
My recommendation would be to install an LXDE system and then
add IceWM.
This will make sure you have all necessary pieces for a
graphical system
without overloading the system too much.
As you become more familiar with Debian you can either remove
LXDE or
install from scratch without any Desktop Environment.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
Hi. I'm the OP. I've been installing different distros the easy
way for a few years now, that is why I wanted to try the
minimalist install 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*
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 check boxes of the
different desktop environments to choose from, along with web
server, print server, SSH server, standart system utilities, there
was only one check box, the one for standard system utilities,
that's it, just one. Is that normal?
Before this window though, there was an internet connection setup.
I had to manually enter ESSID, which I assume is the same as SSID,
and the password. I double checked and triple checked the eessid
and the password, but it would not connect.
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?
I wonder if there's a step by step instruction somewhere about
this procedure.
By the way, I used debian-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Thank you for your time!
