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Although I was severly burned for my last post :p I will give some relevent info that I hadn't seen mentioned here yet: that of the state of the Debian Installer.

I gave the sarge installer a go on an old box I had about. I put the CD in, booted up and was introduced to the common boot: prompt with info on how to proceed. I hit enter. The installer reported the it was installing installer modules. A bit redundent not to mention quick to put files on my drifve (where did they go?) But okay. The next step was a nice text based question about my language (lots to choose from!) then there may have been another simple question, I don't recall. Next was setting up my network but it failed to detect my network card. great. went through every possibility, none of which worked (i have a siemens card in that box) in the course of trying every possibility i kept getting some odd unrelated message. finally i was told to load a driver from a floppy. uh, what floppy? i don't even have a floppy drive. And so I was able to get to the 3rd step before failure. Lovely.

I put in my knoppix disk and played frozen bubble instead.

Yea, Ian's Anacanda idea, that's a bad one. sic.