Booting Into the Installed System, Installing Packages

Upon rebooting, you will see the GRUB menu. If you see the splash screen from the first page again, remove the CD and reboot.

Select the topmost option, and if everything installed correctly, you should eventually come to a login prompt.

Log in. It is normal that you will not see asterisks or any other visual confirmation of your keystrokes as you type your password.

Since everything appears to be running nicely, let’s test out Apache (the web server selected during the install):

Just enter the address of the Debian server on your local network into your browser of choice, and you should see that it’s already up and running, displaying the message “It Works!”

So the web server is running. Left to install, configure and/or test are the MySQL database server, openSSH server for remote administration and Samba for sharing files over a Windows network.