okay,i made a grave mistake in installing the base bare bones install of debian.
here i have edited this from the original.
this morning when i got home from work i did some searching and then just shut the system down via the mechanical off on switch. waited a few minutes and then restarted via the mechanical switch, the BIOS key options came to again i hit f9 and sliped in the Debian Mint CD.
i will make Debian a side project. and in future adventures comb the files and recognize what has been downloaded besides the base system and work with that.
Thanks