Fresh install - desktop not loading

General system EndeavourOS installation
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Done a fresh install from a live usb.
Everything seems to have gone fine during installation.
Reboot and I am now looking at a screen saying
Arch Linux 5.16.2-arch1-1 (tty1)
User-name login: _

I can log in to the system but there is no normal desktop only terminal prompt

Any suggestions on what to do
Thank you

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Sounds like you forgot to select a desktop/WM. That sounds like a base Arch linux installation.

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Coming to think of it, I chose for the online installation and coming to think of it the installer said I was of line - which I thought was an installer mistake because the machine was on line (I did made some donation to EOS)
Any how - is it a question of re installing or is there a way to add the DE on the base Arch ??
Thank you

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Selecting a Display Manager, may have to do with your Display Environment or Window Manager you are using. SDDM is easy, LightDM is… light and needs a greeter.

  • Log in the console/TTY (black screen) with your credentials (username/password).
  • Update your system and add sddm or lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter
sudo pacman -Syu sddm

If there are no significant errors, enable and start sddm.

sudo systemctl enable --now sddm

Read more about how to configure it.

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Thank you very much.
Cheers

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we do work on a way to omit that users do not tag DE/WM on installs, as there is none selected per default, only if you choose offline install it will install the one used also on the ISO (XFCE4).

The next release will solve this inconvenience.

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The problem was the fact that I was connected to the internet but calamaras didn’t see that.

Indeed it would be better if when calamara thinks client is off line then install the default DE.

thank you

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calamares only does a simple network connectivity check.
But if no internet is connected online install will not be possible, you will get a notification and you can to proceed with install:
nonet