Well, it boots up in QEMU. I believe my first install of Debian was woody, or Debian 3. 'If your monitor displays color, please select "Color" here.' edit: Ha

Well, it boots up in QEMU. I believe my first install of Debian was woody, or Debian 3. 'If your monitor displays color, please select "Color" here.' edit: Hard drive partitioned; we're formatting as ext2 now. The installer is remarkably like modern Debian. edit: Still churning; perhaps my 8GiB partition was rather overkill ;) https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/debian2/00-ext2.png https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/debian2/00-ext2.pn... golly: https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/debian2/01-ext2.png https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/debian2/01-ext2.pn... 8 character root password: https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/debian2/02-rootpw.png https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/debian2/02-rootpw.... got me a dpkg: https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/debian2/03-dpkg.png https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/debian2/03-dpkg.pn... I'm installing the sysadmin 'selection' ... we're getting Python 1.5 :D :O https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/debian2/05-xfree86.png https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/debian2/05-xfree86... I didn't want me no damned GUI! Mouse is broken! Update: I'm in, I have vim, loopback, a user account, but no network interface. Another time. :)