Who this post is for: anyone who’d like to quickly set up a Debian Etch development server with a LAMP stack and put it in a closet somewhere to be accessed remotely from a workstation via VNC. In this walk through, I install a bare bones GNOME desktop, but you could get away with an even skinnier desktop environment if you’re partial to something like XFce4. It’s your choice … and that’s exactly why you and I run Linux :) This is what I did earlier this evening … 6:59 PM – Insert CD and boot into the installer The CD image being used here is the netinst image. TIP: Typically, it’s quickest to only choose the Standard System task while the CD is in the drive because [...]
