just install debian buster and can do anything with it as I am not in the sudo list
 

and I got reported, sheesh.
Also the MSI Nvidia graphics card works perfect in windows 7, but here it's all wonky, I get streaks coming out from the upper left corner, so I thought can I install an nvidia driver?
Card is nvidia 6200

I cant do anything so far about adding in a different source repo like is suggested
pics of what I see, it flashes terrible
https://photos.app.goo.gl/1pGKmDiMy5voPo3YA
https://photos.app.goo.gl/tX7ZoJhyspRQzK9P9

if I remember well during the install of debian you need to specify that password.
you need to use su, not sudo (or boot into single user mode).

https://www.journaldev.com/39529/lin...o-sudoers-list
How to login to root??
log out then login as root somehow? during the install I did add a password for root

do not need to logout. open a shell and run: su.

ok, that does not work, there is no root login showing on the login page, just the one user I made
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zSJ3QT18est3VKVU7

yes, that works, i had tried sudo su

yes, login as regular user, open a shell and execute su inside. Do not use su and sudo together.

instructions I found dont work, nothing is in the sources list
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NN7UsoCTsvGCiXSi7

was using these
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-insta...0-buster-linux

anyone know what to do? The screen is about unusable

I installed MXlinux on this system, and had no video flashing streaks like crazy as with debian, but I did choose the KDE desktop.

How can I install a simpler desktop so I can try and work with getting an nvidia driver on here?

ok, about to give up on debian, maybe try ubuntu. I have used ubuntu in the past for years.
I tried apt-get-install lxde
but since I installed off usb, it wants media/cdrom for the files, as somehow in some dumb stupid way, it cant get the files off the internet like ubunut always did

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PCSMGr4Mw4toDevt9

oops, can't install ubuntu on this, no 32 bit installs from them anymore.

that is sources.list, an i was missing.
The video driver and the desktop are two different things. You need a working video anyway. I would suggest you to fix this nvidia issue, but slow down a bit.
You need to remove the CD/DVD images from sources.list (add a # before deb cdrom ....)

ok, got the list adjusted
but still no nvidia detect
debian-scott-478@debian-478:~$ su
Password:
root@debian-478:/home/debian-scott-478# apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Get:4 http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [121 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian buster/non-free Sources [85.6 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian buster/main Sources [7,842 kB]
Fetched 8,049 kB in 10s (814 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
root@debian-478:/home/debian-scott-478# apt -y install nvidia-detect
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-detect
root@debian-478:/home/debian-scott-478#

As an administrative user open the /etc/apt/sources.list and add the non-free repository. For example change the repository definition:

FROM:
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ buster main
TO:
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ buster main non-free

Once ready update the repository index files using the below command:

# apt update

I am posting from the machine with the video issue, and it is really hard as the flashes are pretty constant and they wipe out the text

ok, maybe its a dead end, nvidia detect is a 64 bit package only
does that mean no nvidia driver is available then?
https://packages.debian.org/buster/nvidia-detect