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- Feb 14, 2003
You don't load drivers... you follow a menu-based installation program in debian. It's very simple. It just asks you questions and you answer.
At one point you'll choose a 'profile' or something like that. Choose something like desktop that includes X.org or you won't get a gui (a pure server won't).
If you are installing to an external hard drive, you can't be booting from that hard drive to do it. Well... you can, but it's complicated, involves partitioning, and is a way of introducing unnecessary work. Windows CAN read the debian installer medium, as it's isolinux. Look up how isolinux/syslinux work. They boot a FAT32 filesystem, not an ext3 filesystem. It just looks like that because after it starts the FAT32 filesystem, it loads an image of an ext3 or other Linux filesystem.
At one point you'll choose a 'profile' or something like that. Choose something like desktop that includes X.org or you won't get a gui (a pure server won't).
If you are installing to an external hard drive, you can't be booting from that hard drive to do it. Well... you can, but it's complicated, involves partitioning, and is a way of introducing unnecessary work. Windows CAN read the debian installer medium, as it's isolinux. Look up how isolinux/syslinux work. They boot a FAT32 filesystem, not an ext3 filesystem. It just looks like that because after it starts the FAT32 filesystem, it loads an image of an ext3 or other Linux filesystem.