Debian Installer Tutorial

Created By: Chris Taylor

• Insert the netinst CD.




• Start the installer (in this screenshot i am starting the installer with preseeded tasks to install KDE and the base system)




• Select the installer language. (I will be using english throughout this tutorial)




• Select your country.




• Select your keyboard layout.




• The installer will now load its components based on your previous choices.



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• The installer will now configure the network.



• Set the name of your computer.




• Set the domain name you want. (In this example i am using the domain name "lan", if you do not have a valid domain name, you can leave it blank)




• Select your timezone.




• Choose your partitioning method. (If you are a new user i would advise using the guided method)




• Select the hard disk that you want to partition.




• Select a partitioning scheme. (If you are a new user, i would recommend putting all files in one partition).




• This is the overview of what the partitions will look like. (Ext3 is the standard linux partition format)




• Select yes if the partions were the way you wanted them to be.




• The installer will now install the system onto your harddisk.




• Set the password for the root account (Root is the system administrator account). Try to select a password that is not easy to guess, i would suggest a password that is at least 12 characters long and that includes at the very least 1 number, 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase, and 1 symbol.




• Set the name of the first user, (Please note that this is not the username, simply the name of the user)




• Set the username of the first user.




• Set the password of the first user, not that i recommend the same difficulty for the password as the root password.




• Select the Debian archive mirror that is closest to you. (In these examples, i am using a Debian mirror that is located on my actual network)




• If you dont use a proxy server, or dont know what that is just leave this blank.




• The installer will now configure the package manager based on your previous choices.




• Select whether or not you would like to participate in the package usage survey. (I personally do participate).




• The installer will now figure out what packages it needs to install, because i preseeded the installer it will not ask me what i want to install).




• The installer will now download all the packages that it needs to install from the Debian mirror that you selected. Please note that this can take a VERY LONG time depending on your download speed. So do not be alarmed if it takes several hours.




• Select which display manager to use, i personally use KDM due to the fact that i primarily use KDE.




• The installer will now finish configuring and installing the software on your harddisk.




• Set your screen resolution, refer to your Graphics Card and Monitor manuals if you dont know what to select.




• The installer will now finish configuring and installing the software on your harddisk.




• The installer will now install the GRUB bootload.




• Select yes to install the GRUB bootloader.




• The installer will now complete the installation process.




• The installation has now completed.



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