installing debian

[Terence Kearns]

OK, so I installed debian on a VMware machine. I was glad to see it 
included explicit support for VMware with X (vmware_drv.o).

When I boot, it tries to load X and then terminates with "no screens 
found". I know very little about XF86Config. As far as I know, the 
install software should configure it for you and it should "just work" 
(as mentioned in previous posts).

Once again debian fails the simple "default" install test. Ordinarily I 
would just say "well maybe it's because of VMware" but the installation 
claimed to support it by providing the option. This is like the 10th 
attempt at installing Debian and on every single occasion, it simply 
hasn't worked (without prior Linux knowledge and lots of hacking).
I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, I mean it _is_ free so one 
can't complain, but when comparing it with other distros, it fails on 
the old "can a newbie install it?" test.