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Thank you Tolkem. This was exactly what was needed and another clear proof point of how UNIX/Linux have and are evolving. I've never heard of dhcpcd but I've spent about an hour reading about it. I now have a fully functional Debian system that I can begin to tune and play with.

To respond to the replies from Tolkem and Vrai. When I had contrib:non-free it wouldn't work. When I removed the : it worked. I think because I've been away from UNIX for so long and am jumping back in the the middle of this I'm having a lot of version issues. Because I am struggling I go to...

One of the beauties of Unix/Linux is it does exactly what you tell it to do with little or no complaint or comment. Once I looked at my own post I noted my own typos. These drivers are now installed and I'll move on to the next steps in connecting to a wifi network.

Well, this will be helpful once I work all the way through it. First, is there a list of incompatibilities or deltas between buster and stretch. I loaded this system with an iso off the Debian site but I see in the source.list file a lot of stretch updates. Relative to the non-free it has: #...

Well, I promised to be back with a dumb question. I now have a running Debian 10 system and would like to enable the Broadcom 4321 chipset to connect to a WiFi network. As I understand it the correct command to install the driver for this NIC is apt install firmware-b43-installer. This...

I want to thank you all for forcing me out of my tunnel vision. I was looking at the wrong end of the process. I stuck a Kali distro into the thing and it booted just fine. The question about verifying the download triggered me to get my head up. I did do that but didn't verify the burn. I...

Well, that is what I thought as well. I spent 40 years at DEC/Compaq/HP but I worked in the Unix Engineering area with large servers so I'm really not as comfortable with PCs as I should be.

I'll consider Mint. I was loading Debian because I use Kali on a different PC for hacking. I thought Debian would be a semi, pseudo, quasi similar distro for general desktop use.

I did verify the download and I did burn the CD on a Windows 10 workstation.

a) I don't have another computer to try it on but I'll find one. Great thought. b) CD has debian-10.3.0.amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso

I dug out an old HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop and want to make it a dedicated Linux machine. It has Vista installed on it. The bios and bios setup are Phoenix. It apparently has secure boot enabled but there is no such option in the bios setup utility. The utility has only a Main, Security...