Installation doubts

[Yan]

Is this your laptop? It says Celeron, but Celeron is a kind of Pentium II. It also says 32 MB of RAM, and if that's really all you have, I doubt whether you can install and run DSL 2024 at all. DSL is based on AntiX, and AntiX says you need 512 MB. To know how much RAM you have, do free -h.

When I run cli-installer, I see this:

This installer does NOT offer the option for using a separate boot partition.
This installer does NOT offer encryption.
If you want the above mentioned features, use our gui installer.

So it doesn't say to use the cli installer to have a separate /boot partition, but to use the gui installer.

Now, apparently you don't see the GUI installer, so I'm wondering how you're running DSL. You're supposed to burn the ISO to a CD disk, then boot from the CD disk. Is that what you did? If that's what you did and you don't see the GUI, I suppose that means that DSL can't run the GUI on your system and you have no choice but to use the CLI installer.

I suggest you try to install in text mode, without worrying about being connected or about your graphics driver at first. If you can't even install, that answers the question about whether you have enough RAM. If you can install, then try to connect to the Internet (a wired connection would be simpler than a wireless connection) and run this to install gcc:

sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install gcc