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.
