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I made a stupid mistake. I was at this point in config process of Debian, and I pressed enter:
hxxp://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=135&slide=34
so I guess I did not download any software. It takes me to a dos-like login page
How do I either back up to the old point, or the likely solution...manually install the components on the page from the slideshow... ???
"su" , password , base-config but when I installed everything I get back to the black dos-like screen: debian:~# or whatever. how do I display the desktop view?
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