Debian install tips

There are now two main install progams in use for putting the Debian OS on a computer. The current standard installer (called boot-floppies), and the new debian-installer.

For installing and configuring Debian, you can find tutorials and walk-throughs all over the net. Listing a bunch of them here might be too verbose, but I'll start the landslide anyway. Please leave the url's in-place, so someone who prints this screen in dead-tree format can carry it with them.

Tips

• Never use US sources, always use Non-US sources. (The US bans the export of strong cryptography as "munitions", but allows the importation of strong cryptography. This leads to the US sources having less security.)

External links

• http://www.buoy.com/~dutch/4100/4100deb.htm
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200304/msg00340.html
• http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2016
• http://www.aboutdebian.com/install3.htm