
After reading many of the posts regarding the recent OSNews story, "
An Unbiased Review of Debian 3.0", I thought this article may be useful to those who would like to try
Debian, but are a little intimidated by its installer. Several of the posts to the above mentioned story indicated that Debian's installer was a huge hurtle for many people, who would otherwise like to try it. I have found Debian to be the most useful flavor of Linux, so I wanted to write an easy, though somewhat long, walkthrough in the hopes of allowing a wider audience to experience first hand this stable and unique Linux distribution.
If you don't want 'lbxproxy, proxymngr, twm, xdm, xfs, xfwp, xnest, xprt, xspecs, xterm and xvfb', I can recommend installing 'x-window-system-core' instead of 'x-window-system'. If you don't know what these apps do you probably don't want them