Nulani attempted to help me, but she sent me a very small version of debian. I partitioned a bit for what I needed, and installed everything, but for some reason it couldn’t access the internet to get the files it needed. So I’m shit out of luck, but I need to know some steps for getting linux running so that I can eventually get some game servers set up or just use it as an alternative to windows.
What should I do? 
So…it can’t connect to the internet right? Thats the issue here? And what is the distro?
Yes, no internet connection, and i can’t figure out how to navigate the console interface.
it’s Debian 3.0, I believe.
I tried the help and everything, but it doesn’t really give a description of any of the commands.
Its going through its security updates right? You can’t get into a Window Manager at this point? It tries to connect to something like [Security.Debian.org] right?
No… it’s got everything installed now… I reinstalled everything.
I can log in and everything, I just need some help learning the basic commands on the debian console.
[ul]
[li]Think DOS/FServ.
[/li][li]ls = dir
[/li][li]nano. Notepad.
[/li][li]man < program >. Help.
[/li][li]su <user>. Switch user.
[/li][li]apt-cache search < package >. Searches avaiable Packages.
[/li][li]apt-get install < package >. Installs specified Package(s).
[/li][/ul]
[ul]
[li]apt-get install x-window-system
[/li][li]apt-get install enlightenment
[/li][li]startx
[/li][/ul]
Ought to set you with a GUI.
I don’t quite think that’ll work Nul since he can’t connect to the internet and won’t be able to download those. I’ve been thinking about it, but I’m trying to figure out the online part since the rest should be easy after that. He obviously doesn’t have dial-up, since trying to install Debian over dial-up would be a nightmare and probably impossible. Steve, when you were installing it, did you say you had dsl/cable instead of LAN? That could be the problem there. Also, are you tryiong to use a wireless connection? Linux has a hard time utilizing those.
Nah, I downloaded stuff from the security.debian.com or whatever.
Thanks for the help, though, Nul.
The problem is that I already tried using startx… and it didn’t work, it says it can’t initialize kernel “i810” and my video card is an intel 82810E… I looked through the logs and it recognizes the correct video card.