Insert the Debian Etch CD

power on or reboot

hit enter to boot the default kernel

Select English (or you language of choice)

Select Australia (or your country of choice)

Select American English (or your keboard of choice)

Select eth0 (or the first Broadcom interface)

DHCP should fail (unless you have a DHCP server on your network in which case ignore the next few steps)

enter iP address (select either the IP address for eddie or russell)

Netmask 255.255.255.0

gateway 192.168.1.1

nameserver "192.168.1.2 192.168.1.3"

enter hostname (eddie or russell)

enter domain name, example.org

partition manually

Leave the existing partitions (this is up to you of course)

Create a new ext3 primary partition at the beginning of the disk of size 200MB mounted at /boot (will end up showing up as 197.4MB)

Create a new physical volume for LVM at the beginning of the disk using all remaining space

Configure Logical Volume Manager

Write the changes to disk

Create a new volume group using all the physical volume with the name the same as the machine.

Create a new logical volume called root of size 10G (will end up showing up as 10.7GB)

Create a new logical volume called swap of size 2G (will end up showing up as 2.1GB)

Finish

Make the swap logical volume usable as swap

Make the root logical volume ext3 mounted at /

Finish

Write the changes.

Timezone: Sydney (or your choice of timezone)

Set root passwd

Create a system user

Use a network mirror? Yes

Enter information as appropriate for your contry, I ran an apt proxy so I chose manual.

Package Survey: Yes

tasksel: select base system

Install Grub: Yes

reboot