[Installation] New install, no gui

Hi,

I am in the process of installing debian to dual boot alongside windows on a lenovo laptop with a 500g drive.

I did the install last night expecting a gui interface but when I boot into the new debian install I get a command line prompt. No gui as far as I can see. It does boot up smartly in either OS.

I thought I had asked it to install a gui in the process. The command systemctl get-default responds with "graphical.target".

Browsing this forum and otherwise searching, I didn't come across answers.

Maybe there are additional steps I need to take to fire up the gui from the debian command line?

I thought I must have missed something on the install and that doing it again might be the way to go. Since I would be installing it over an existing debian partition, I wondered if that might complicate the process. When I go to recovery mode in windows and ask it to reboot from the usb flash drive, it reboots into debian as a cli not from the usb flash drive.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks,
Ken

Statistics: Posted by kgw — 2024-04-14 03:48 — Replies 4 — Views 82

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