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The Very Verbose Debian 3.0 Installation Walkthrough
Gentu writes "Cited the general displeasure which accompanied the Debian 3.0 release, mostly regarding its dated installation procedure, Clinton De Young wrote an easy-reading but long article for OSNews going through the Debian installation step by step. Of course Progeny released recently the PGI graphical installer, but it is not as complete as the current Debian text-based installer and it will definately be quite some time before it get adopted by the project."
i'm a new linux user, though i am very good at windows, especially starcraft. i tried to install debain but i couldn't get my usb peripherals to work, which made it really hard. so i decided to install mandrake and got it working in about 30 minutes. i would really like to use debain because my 17yo brother (who is doing his 1st year in computer science ay uni) said that it was the most 133t distro, so i changed /etc/issue on my mandrake box to say "debain" and made a symlink from /usr/bin/urpmi to /usr/bin/apt-get. now it feels like i am finally running debain! i am so much happier now with my new, more stable and secure "box", because haXX0rs will haX0r my box and see that i am running plebian and not haX0r me because they will know that i am l33t! thank you.