The first step: persistence in a void...

The first step is to set up some persistence. I choose a 16Gb USB stick. I figured, since it's an experiment, and since harddisks are somewhat in short supply...why not.

First step: boot with the CD .. and the USB stick plugged in.
Second step: recon:

came up with sda as drive...the USB stick, as the harddrive is unplugged.
Third step: lay out the drive

and calculate the partitions:

...and add them, of course.

Fourth step: format the partitions

For the insiders, partitioning is not formatting...but, you know this...

Make sda1 bootable and turn sda2 into a Linux swap...