We would like to thank iConnect for making the CD available to us. Debian was created by Ian Murdock in 1993, initially under the sponsorship of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project. Today, Debian's developers think of it as a direct descendent of the GNU project. Installing Debian Enter. By the time I had installed it on my P60, I had an entire training session for my chickens, with plans to take over entire networks.
Debian installation begins with a set of floppies.
The base system is installed, and from there, you go through the package selection process. I've noticed that one of the things I do that causes problems is deciding to not install package foobar. It's big, I don't like the package name, the version number is 13, so I don't install it. So I waste a lot of time only to discover that the packages I left out contain files that other programs depend on. Debian solves this problem for me, or at least warns me that I am making a mistake.