pilgrims and wannabes.
My desktop has an Atom processor, Intel integrated board, 1 gig of RAM, a cdrom,
an sda 160 gigs hd, a couple of Altec speakers my neighbor was gonna throw away,
a $6 spanish kbd and a $4 mouse. The tower cost me $100 second hand of course. I
explain this so you know you don't need a top of the line box.
I burned the Lenny netinstall cd (~180 MB), inserted the cd, rebooted, at the
prompt i hit TAB, a line with parameters come up, i changed "vga=normal" for
"vga=791" and added "bootkbd=es" (i got a spanish keyboard) and "expert". Push
Enter and away we go!
I choose the language (English), the country (Panama), the keyboard (Spanish),
the screen with DHCP comes up, and it auto-configures, next i give my box a name
(foo), next i type my isp domain: (cableonda.com).
Next i choose the country for my mirror (USA), the debian server i want, leave
the proxy screen as is and go forward, the partition screen comes up.
I choose the Guided option and gave Debian the whole hard drive. Chose the
partition scheme that gives me the following: /, /home, /var, /usr, /var, and
/tmp. Took the default Ext3 file system, i make sure the boot option in / is
"on" and say yes to formatting the disk. Debian will be the only OS. At this
point the partition is over and i write the changes to the hard drive, starts
formatting. The next step is to install the base system, it installs the kernel
2.6.26-2-686.
Next i enter the user name and password twice, next the password for Root twice.
WRITE THIS IN A PIECE OF PAPER FOR LATER USE!
Next, comes the APT configuration, i choose the USA repositories, back on the
main installation menu is the Packages Installation. A menu comes with the
options "Desktop Environment" and another one i can't remember, disable both of
them with the space bar, so nothing is installed.
I install GRUB to the MBR and the installation is finished, the installation cd
is expelled and the machine reboots.
When it comes back you are facing a black screen with the word
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login:
password, press Enter and now you're 'root' (#)
Only as root you can install, uninstall, edit files not on your /home, etc.
So now we update/upgrade the system:
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# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
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# apt-get install xorg gnome-core
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# apt-get install xorg kde-core
enter the X system as a normal user, you exit root and become user.
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# exit (Enter)
login: username (Enter)
password: xxxxx (Enter)
Example:
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macondo@foo:~$ startx (press Enter)
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If you're a sicko like me, you only install window managers and independent apps.
After you do the apt-get update/dist-upgrade, you install your favorites:
my video card is Intel.
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# apt-get update && apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel xinit rxvt-unicode ratpoison menu sudo feh xfonts-terminus unrar elinks numlockx unclutter iceweasel xchat firestarter sysvconfig less zip unzip bzip2 locate debfoster localepurge preload scrot sylpheed brasero gpm gv ntpdate pcmanfm
bye bye!
Note: in the next section which explains the configuration, some apps will be installed from the Backports repositories (or repos) you gotta start learning the lingo.