I have a bit of a silly question.

I've been using Nix for about a month and a half now. I started with Ubuntu, but it was just too bleeding-edge for me. I'm not using Slack and, while I like it, it is quite tedious at time. The one thing that did appeal to me with Ubuntu was the apt-get. So obviously, Deb seemed like a good choice.

So this afternoon I thought I'd try and install it on a second computer to try it out. I downloaded the network install cd and most of the installation went fine.

However, once I got to the installation process, it came up with an error about being unable to configure the printer--the computer I was trying to install it on doesn't have one. I just picked the "cancel" option and when on to set up GRUB. But, once it was finished and I rebooted I got a boot error.

I'm sure there's a obvious answer to the problem, I just didn't want to sit through the hour or downloading the packages only to mess it up again.

Which boot error are you getting during the boot-up process of debian?
Once we know which error, we can help.

Well, actually I tried it again and had the same problem. But this time it booted into a command line.

When I tried to start X nothing happened. I tried both xorgsetup and xorgconfig and just got a "not found" error which lead me to believe it didn't install X properly or even not at all. So obviously I'm not doing something right at install.

It sounds like your CD might be corrupt. Check the md5sum of your ISO
image that you burned the CD from, then check the CDs md5sum.

That was the first thing I did. It was fine.

When you setup the computer using the install cd, there would have been a screen come up asking what sort of setup you want, ie desktop, webserver, mailserver, laptop etc etc, there is a few things there, but i cant remember them all. Did you select the desktop selection? If not, u wont get a gui without manually apt-getting and installing. If you dont remember this screen or didnt get it, run tasksel and select desktop and go from there.

If tasksel isnt there, apt-get install tasksel.

Perhaps he did install it, and he's getting another kind of error, concerning whatever.

Can you post output of /var/log/xorg.log?

I tried it again and I think I know what happened.

During the installation process I get an error: "automatic printer setup." It's trying to install a printer and there isn't one. The only option is exit. I press it and get kicked back out to the main menu and it cancels the install. Last time I just went on to configure GRUB (the next option on the list) and didn't install most of the system. Hence the no X.

But it seems that a printer is require for a basic install so I must be missing something.