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1: The Debian Universe

2: Debian: The Three-In-One Distro

The Release Scheme

3: Installing Debian

Automatic Installation: The Chicken Method

Getting The Installer

Jigdo: The Jigsaw Downloader

Running The Installer

Keyboard

Setting Up The Disk

Creating A Boot Partition

Creating A Root Partition

Creating A Swap Partition

Initialising The Swap Partition

Initialising The Root Partition

Initialise The Boot Partition

Installing The Kernel

Device Driver Modules

Configure The Network

Install Base System

Make System Bootable

Making A Boot Floppy

Rebooting Into Debian

Setting The Time Zone

Users And Passwords

Remove PCMCIA

Setting Package Sources

Using Security Updates

Tasksel

Dselect

Installing The Packages

What Next?

4: Installing The X Window System

Client-Server Architecture

Choosing A System

Checking Your Hardware

Installing Xfree86 v4.0

Driver Settings

Keyboard And Mouse

Monitor Selection

The Gnome Desktop

Installation

Debugging

Logging into GDM

5: Introduction to Debian Software Package Management

The Debian Approach

Package Management Tools

Dpkg

Apt And Friends

Synaptic

Aptitude And Dselect

Customising Your Software Sources

/etc/apt/sources.list

www.apt-get.org

6: Synaptic: Point-n-Click Software Management

Getting Synaptic

General Approach

Updating The Package List

Finding Packages

Installing And Removing Packages

Updating Your Entire System

Managing Software Sources

Conclusion

7: Automated Installation: Using FAI

8: Security Patches And Updates

10: The Gnome Desktop

11: Productivity Software

12: Attaching Peripherals

13: Networking

14: Running Web Services

15: Running Mail Services

16: File Serving

17: Running A Proxy Server

18: Running A Firewall

19: Package Caching: Updating Multiple Machines

Package Storage Options

Running A Local Mirror

NFS Mounting /var/cache/apt

Moving Packages

Traditional HTTP Proxy

Dedicated Caching Systems

Apt-cacher Background

Apt-cacher Structure

Installing Apt-cacher

Server Setup

Client Setup

Configuration Options

admin_email

generate_reports

cache_dir

logfile

errorfile

expire_hours

http_proxy

use_proxy

debug

Reporting and Cleaning

Traffic Reports

Cache Cleaning

20: Creating Debian Packages

21: Compiling Kernels The Debian Way

Getting The Source

Tools You Will Need

Configuration Methods

editing .config

make config

make menuconfig

make xconfig

Configuring The Kernel

Compiling And Packaging

Installing Your Kernel Package

Setting Lilo Prompts

Rebooting And Testing

Installing On Other Machines

22: Becoming A Debian Developer

25: First Look: Next-Generation Debian Installer

Installer Rationale

Getting The Installer

Starting The Installer

Boot options

Language Setting

Sequential versus Menu Mode Installers

Autodetection

Configuring The Network

Choose Your Distribution

Disk Partitioning

Creating A Boot Partition

Creating A Root Partition

Creating A Swap Partition

Mount Partitions

Installing The Base System

Installing The Bootloader

Reboot

Timezone

Setting Up Users

Configuring Apt

Tasksel And Dselect

Final Configuration

Reporting Bugs

Chickenrun Revisited

12: Printing

Print Systems

CUPS

lp and lp-ng

Managing Printers

CUPS Web Interface

Gnome CUPS Manager

Testing And Fine Tuning

99: Kudos