trying to install debian

[chrisvb]

I'm trying to install debian on my desktop pc, I've shrunk the windows partition and made a 10gb partition using gparted on my ssd, and a 100gb partition NTFS called storage on my 1tb hdd. the installation went well, took 3 hours ( I was using net install) I rebooted and tried to type "startx" and got xinit: no such file or directory and i've googled around and tried apt-get update apt-get install KDE which I then get errors that the domain can't be resolved.

 

[tntcoder]

I'm trying to install debian on my desktop pc, I've shrunk the windows partition and made a 10gb partition using gparted on my ssd, and a 100gb partition NTFS called storage on my 1tb hdd. the installation went well, took 3 hours ( I was using net install) I rebooted and tried to type "startx" and got xinit: no such file or directory and i've googled around and tried apt-get update apt-get install KDE which I then get errors that the domain can't be resolved.

Have you managed to apt-get install anything?

Domain resolve errors point to incorrect DNS settings.

Have a look at the file /etc/resolv.conf

You can edit it with "nano /etc/resolv.conf", check the correct IP is in there for your DNS servers.

 

[inSilica]

This may sound silly but if you done a net-install then all should be OK. Check you didn't knock the Ethernet cable, does the OS even have an IP address, dynamic or static? what does

sudo ifconfig

say

 

[rexehuk]

Debian doesn't come with sudo installed, atleast when I done it for my server.

Login as root then install sudo, then sudo from higher level account from then on.

try: dhclient eth0 as well assuming you're using a wired line. Make sure you haven't MAC restricted your router also (this cost me 5-10 hours of troubleshooting why I wasn't being assigned an IP).

 

[whitecrook]

3 hours :O Usually takes about 30 mins for all the gubbins - is your internet from 1996?