Debian System installation hints

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1. General Linux system installation hints
   1. Hardware compatibility basics
   2. Determining a PC's hardware and chip set
   3. Determining a PC's hardware via Debian
   4. Determining a PC's hardware via other OSs
   5. A Lilo myth
   6. GRUB
   7. Choice of boot floppies
   8. Installation
   9. Hosts and IP to use for LAN
   10. User accounts
   11. Creating filesystems
       1. Hard disk partition
       2. Mount filesystems
       3. Autofs mount
       4. NFS mount
   12. DRAM memory guidelines
   13. Swap space
2. Bash configuration
3. Mouse configuration
   1. PC/2 mice
      1. In General
      2. The ms3 protocol approach
      3. The raw protocol approach
      4. How to adjust to different mice
   2. USB mice
   3. Touchpad
4. NFS configuration
5. Samba configuration
6. Printer configuration
   1. lpr/lpd
   2. CUPS™
7. CRON for desktop PCs
8. Other host installation hints
   1. Install a few more packages after initial install
   2. Modules
   3. CD-RW basic setup
   4. Large memory and auto power-off
   5. Strange access problems with some websites
   6. Dialup PPP configuration
   7. Other configuration files to tweak in /etc/

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