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 1. Disable Boot Buster: press F2 (you may need to press it several times during the boot) to access BIOS

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Select stable Lenny or beta2 Squeeze installer

The current Lenny release candidate now supports both atl1e and atl2, so installing over ethernet should work on all models with these chipsets. If you have a newer model with atl1c ethernet, either install Squeeze over wifi with the weekly snapshot installer, or else do an install without a network (as per below but use the first DVD image instead of netinst image) and get the network working later with a kernel upgrade. For more details, see the wiki page for your ../../Model.

Preparation

Lenny (stable) system using the standard installer:

  1. Download the Lenny netinst ISO image from http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/debian-installer/

  2. Download boot.img.gz from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz

  3. Using an empty USB device, do

# zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX     # where sdX is the device your USB media is using
  1. Mount the USB device (i.e. /dev/sdX, not /dev/sdX1) and copy the netinstall ISO image to it.
  2. Reboot and boot netbook the USB drive

Updated Lenny backports d-i *Use at own risk* : http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/

Note: If the installer does not find the ISO image, you may try to use http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz , the standard Lenny boot image with the ISO linked above.

Squeeze (testing) using debian-installer beta2

  1. Download the Squeeze beta2 netinst ISO image from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-beta2-i386-netinst.iso (or, for amd64 machines, http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_beta2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-beta2-amd64-netinst.iso)

  2. Download boot.img.gz from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz (or, for amd64 machines, http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz)

  3. Using an empty USB device, do

# zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX     # where sdX is the device your USB media is using
  1. Mount the USB device (i.e. /dev/sdX, not /dev/sdX1) and copy the netinstall ISO image to it.
  2. Reboot and boot netbook the USB drive

Note: If the above links files aren't there just wait. The images must match otherwise the install won't find the ISO, you will get kernel mismatch problems, or it just won't boot.

Installation

  1. Disable Boot Buster: press F2 (you may need to press it several times during the boot) to access BIOS
  2. Boot the eeePC using the USB device (press ESC during boot)
  3. Follow the installer instructions.
  4. Install the eeepc-acpi-scripts package for best results (additional hotkey support, etc. not provided out of the box with base Debian install).

Installing wifi driver

Lenny

  1. Add our repository and do an apt-get update after that.

  2. Install the appropriate wifi driver for your model. Consult the page for your model linked from ../../Models for details.

Squeeze

The kernel in Squeeze should already include a wifi driver for your model, except as indicated in ../../Models where no driver is yet available in Debian, so our repository is no longer needed.

Configuration

After installing the base system and wifi drivers, you will need to configure the system for wifi, webcam, hotkeys, etc. to work. On Squeeze, some of these steps may no longer be necessary.