What's next?
 

I just installed Debian 3.0 and I can't figure out what to do next. Instructions kept whizzing by & I apparently missed something. After install was complete & I rebooted, the first prompt was "login" to which I typed username & then "Pass" & I put password. That worked out fine but then a few lines later it asked for a command at this prompt: username@usename~$. I looked around on the net & found one like this" # df -h" and it didn't say bad command or filename so I thought I was onto something. I wasn't. Could someone please tell me how to logon/logout of Debian 3.0?

Hi drknownothing,

if it says "username@box$" you are already logged in. I dont know how basic you woody installation is, maybe you want to go on with "tasksel" (where you can choose out of some pre-configured software compositions like "Desktop Box", Web Server", "Developers Box" etc.)

HTH, Peter

try this command

startx

Still can't
 

"tasksel" worked as it allowed me to pick certain things but when I chose "finish" it says "could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) "Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root username @username:~$" I don't know what to do next. Please help.

You should run "tasksel" as root, so type "su", then root password and then type "tasksel".

Make it "su -" according to some security walkthrough it's safer cause it uses the root's PATH