I'm installing debian on my other machine and I accidentally skipped the page that lets me install basic options (desktop environment is the first one, I didn't get to see the rest). It's rather trivial to bring that back, if I recall correctly. Can someone tell me what that is? Thanks in advance!

I think you can hit ESC and you get the installation menu. Either that or hit abort on any installation process and you should get the menu.

Thanks. I got the GUI working by manually installing some of the X stuff (well it wasn't too manual, I had apt-get [wink]). The weird thing is, when gnome starts, my keyboard and mouse don't work at all. Very bizarre. I don't believe they're set up in an odd manner. The keyboard is set as a regular us 104 key keyboard, and the mouse an ImPS/2. It's very odd.

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Original post by CyberSlag5k Thanks. I got the GUI working by manually installing some of the X stuff (well it wasn't too manual, I had apt-get [wink]). The weird thing is, when gnome starts, my keyboard and mouse don't work at all. Very bizarre. I don't believe they're set up in an odd manner. The keyboard is set as a regular us 104 key keyboard, and the mouse an ImPS/2. It's very odd.

Does it work in X at all? (without gnome) I think there should be an option to just load xdm and not gdm at the login screen.

You can always revisit the base installation configuration later by running sudo base-config.