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I'm new to Linux and I just installed the internet install of Debian. It is all setup now and it has ask me for a login and password which I put in but now it is asking something that I have no idea about. Here is what it says:
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to extent permitted by applicable law.
les@debiantoy:~$
Hey thanks a lot for all the help that you all have given me. I'm an old man and have never worked with Linux before but this is great fun. I entered the commands that you all suggested and it seems to be loading other programs so maybe I'm going to be ok now.
may seem silly to suggets this at first but try typing
startx <enter>
if you have a GUI installed thats the way to start it!
no point re-downloading it and installing it i its allready there!
He did a netinstall, so you can be sure that a GUI is not installed by default. Furthermore, if a GUI was already installed apt-get would not download it again. Please think about what you are saying, you will probably make him more confused than he already is!
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