BTW I am watching mindcandy while doing this ;)
OK, is this GMT and is the clock correct? looks good to me.
I live in . at . yes yes
Ah password types, hmmm yes we want some security.
Yep shadow passwords sounds good.
root password hmmm.
Lets play this by the book, how about 5rWQ!901pPo (I will be changing it regularly, so I do not care if you know it !)
Odd password? not really roots password should not be a recognizable word, should be longer than 8 characters and contain upper/lowercase, numbers and punctuation marks.
As it says you should not use root for normal access, so lets create a user, called rednuht, and give him a similar password ********* ;)
Do I want PCMCIA support ? well, no, this is a desktop machine and I can always add it again in the future if necessary.
Do I want to do an internet install via PPP? NO, I have CDs and very sloooow internet access.
Speaking of which apt can use my CDROM (er, if I put the CD in, Doh!) and lets add all 7 binary CDs.
Right nothing else to add ...
Hmmm auto security updates? I like the idea but will my connection handle it? lets try.
Well that failed ! but then I am not on the internet <shakes type=head></shakes>
Hmmm <i>tasksel</i> eh? I have had run ins with this before, but lets see how it fairs.
I want;
	X window system (for a desktop)
	desktop environment (the GUI of the desktop)
	dialup (for mail/internet access)
	games (erm, for games)
	debian Jr (never seen this before, might have some cool stuff)
	C and C++ (uh hu)
	Python (its an up an coming scripting language)
	Tcl/Tk (one of them)
and nothing else (I can add anything else later)
Speaking of which I will NOT run <i>dselect</i> now (even though it is ALL POWERFUL!)
I used it on my 512mb (hard disk size not memory) and select over gigs worth of files to install :(
My selection will take up about 300mb, and I have lots of space.
After a minute or so I get an information box about 3D appearances, but it appears to be irrelevant.
Uh Oh, this sounds a bit more painful, "Binutils"/"kernel failure", we will ignore it for now ....
"Less is more" well not really, in fact "more is less than less and less is more than more" anyway NO (would be nice later but a liability for now).
Spend time adding locals and then ignoring then all <shakes type=head></shakes>
information , press OK.
Now it wants to disallow ssh1 connections, as it is the default, lets do that.
information , press OK.
Yep sounds good, install SSH key-sign thingy.
I do want the server, cos I have the other machines, but I have to remember to look at locking this up later.
Printer settings .....
CVS, erm yep default.
Oh! maybe not, erm CREATE, server NO
ETHERTAP create, go on then (I always wanted one of these )
I do want the fetchmail thing. default OK default ....
Now onto X (this is where things start to get HAIRY !)
Hmmm login manager (I hate these) but lets go with gdm as the default.
Odd it now wants to configure Mozilla, did I miss something ?
OK,OK,OK... OK ..... eeerrr I am getting tired now...
Here we go, which port is the mouse (USB) on ? lets try /dev/input/mice
No error.. 
You want to know my what !?
Horizontal sync range .....
that will be 30-70 (for my LG studio works monitor) good thing I kept the manual
Now I want a high resolution, but 1920x1440 might be hard to read, oh what the hey lets have that :)
No, do not download 50g of spam from the news groups via my 56k modem !
what next ?
<tick><tock>Now very very tired, need sleep, need to install Linux ... Doh!<tick><tock>
dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Opps fell asleep on the keyboard, and its still going !!
Well I have been in Paris for a few days and the prompt is now for CD2, lets do it !
That was quick now it wants CD4
Even quicker now CD7
Ah ha, something to do, I do want British spelling (although with programming languages I have got used to 'color')
Lists of names are streaming up the screen, gcc,perl,python-newt(?!), something to do with sound, some fonts ...
<tick><tock>  
A few error messages, with resolutions (never saw that in MS software !) but the text scrolls away to fast :(
This is especially bad is it all ends with "Please fix the above errors ..." :(
scrolling scrolling, scrolllling, wait, interaction is required. wvdial wants to detect my modem, OK.
It lied, it actually wants my dialup detail (scowl) >:(
Right so I enter the details and it says my modem does not exist !!   >:(
Scrolling scrolling ... and updating mozilla chrome (is that a good thing?)
and back to the blue background with shadow, what does it want?
Something along the lines of the install failed (at some point) do you want to retry? well not really I think the problem was the modem not being found.
hmmm it does seem to think hitting retry is good idea, lets give it a whirl...
On the other hand, no lets not (I am not a patient man !)
Next, do I want to delete downloaded .DEB files ? Nah its all from CD !!
Ooo now we are getting serious, configure exim, or not as the case maybe, I will run the /usr/sbin/eximconfig later, when I am sure how I want my mail dealt with (I have two independent dial ups).

Hey, thats it! now to see what we have got