[sf-lug] Debian install without a desktop

[tom r lopes]

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> From: Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net>
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> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:34:45 -0700
> Subject: [sf-lug] Debian install  without a desktop
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> I've finally begun again attempting to set up Debian without a window
> manager with plans to install Fluxbox afterwards.
> I did the basic install but toggled (off) the option to install a desk
> top and all seemed to go well until after the reboot.
> That left me in a state where there was a flashing cursor in the top
> left corner of the screen but no key board input was recognized.
> I tried Alt-F1, .... Alt-F6 and even Alt-F7 but to no avail.
>

Flashing cursor like that, in a legacy bios system, means the boot loader
is missing .

There needs to be something installed to the MBR of the drive.  I'm not too
familiar
with Debian but I would guess that a some point of the install you would be
asked
where to install grub.  This should be something like /dev/sda  or
whichever drive is
set to boot.  Not one of the actual partitions.


> I then re-did the install all over but this time left the top asterix
> ('*') in place as shown here:
> {*] Debian desktop environment  # I deleted the asterix on this line the
> first time.
> [ ] ... GNOME
> [ ] ... Xfce
> [ ] ... KDE Plasma
> [ ] ... Cinnamon
> [ ] ... MATE
> [ ] ... LXDE
> [ ] ... LXQt
>
> I've now got a system running and I was happy with it until discovering
> that "copy/paste" doesn't work, at least not from one 'window' to
> another. For example, when I have two instances of Xterm on my screen at
> the same time I can't copy from one and paste into the other- at least
> not using right click highlighting and then left click copy and then
> 'moving' to the other terminal left click cursor positioning and right
> click pasting.
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>
Copy and paste works like that in Ubuntu and in my Arch with Gnome.

Thomas
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