Upon bootup hit F12 to enter the Boot Menu
Goto System Setup
Chose Integrated Devices
Select Integrated NIC set option to On w/ PXE
Reboot: ^<alt><del>
You should seen a screen with 4 option chose 32-Bit (i386) <enter>.
The next screen has 4 options, the one required is:
*Debian/i386 Netboot. install Lenny stable[
GUI]
Choose a language: English
Choose a country: United States Keymap: American English
Host Name: T-bird
Domain Name: offbyone.lan
Debian archive mirror country: Scroll to the top, chose 'Enter information Manually'
Next enter mirror
NOTE: Use the default settings for the next 3 options Debian archive mirror hostname: mirror
Debian archive mirror directory: /debian/
HTTP proxy information: <leave blank>
Time Zone: Eastern
==== Partitioning the Hard Drive ====
Partitioning method: Use entire disk
Select disk to partition: IDE1 master (hda)
Partitioning Scheme: All files in partition
Write the changes to the disk: Yes
Root password: <enter password> <enter>
Verify: <reenter password> <enter>
Name of user: mustange <enter>
Verify user account: <enter>
Password for the user: <A> <enter>
Verify Password: <A> <enter>
Participate in the package usage survey: No <enter>
Software Selection Screen : <Uncheck all options> click continue
Note: You could chose to install the gnome application at this time. I did not.
Install Grub on Master Boot Sector: Yes <enter>
Once the system is done installing the operating system it will reboot
At the login screen: login with root <enter>
Password: <root password> <enter>
==== Installing Patches ====
mv source.list sources.list.bak <enter>
wget http://10.80.2.6/files/student/sources.list <enter>
aptitude update <enter>
aptitude upgrade <enter>
aptitude search ssh <enter>
aptitude install openssh-client openssh-server <enter>
apt-get install xorg
reboot
===== GNOME Desk Top Install =====
Login as root
apt-get install aptitude tasksel
tasksel install gnome-desktop –new-install
Note: there will be some defaults to take. I chose the pc104 key broad option
reboot
Login as user “mustange”
===== Compiz Install =====
Open a root terminal screen
Enter root password.
at the prompt type:
apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-gnome compiz-gtk <enter>
Next we need to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
cd /etc/X11
cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak
vi xorg.con
f
add a new section just befor the [Section “Device”]
Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “enable”
EndSection
next go to the bottom of the Section “Device” and insert a line above EndSection.
On the line you inserted type: Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps” “true”**
save and exit the file
Then type: compiz –replace
you may see some errors these can be ignored.
reboot
Login as mustange after the reboot open a terminal and type:
echo “export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/compiz” » ~/.gnomerc
logout and back in. Compiz should be running under the Gnome desktop.