Debian System installation hints
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Although this chapter was initially written during the days of the Potato installer, most of the contents have been updated to the Woody installer and they are very similar installers.
All content on one page (useful for printing, presentation mode etc.)
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General Linux system installation hints
- Hardware compatibility basics
- Determining a PC's hardware and chip set
- Determining a PC's hardware via Debian
- Determining a PC's hardware via other OSs
- A Lilo myth
- GRUB
- Choice of boot floppies
- Installation
- Hosts and IP to use for LAN
- User accounts
- Creating filesystems
- DRAM memory guidelines
- Swap space
- Bash configuration
- Mouse configuration
- NFS configuration
- Samba configuration
- Printer configuration
- CRON for desktop PCs
- Other host installation hints

