If you have wanted to try a real Debian version without resorting to Knoppix, Libranet or Mepis but have problems with the woody installer there is hope. The new Debian Installer works pretty darn well in getting you an up and running Sarge install. For a beta there seemed to be very few problems. I would recommend it to any tinkerers.

was using slackware solid for the past year but always wanted to try debian, but the installer and number of cd's always daunted me. then a couple of months ago i stumbled back to debian and found the beta installer.

downloaded beta 4 and proceeded to install debian and was very surprised. the install was ok, could be cleaned up a bit with a little more info on what you are doing on certain screens, but everything went off without a hitch. it took me a couple of times to get it right the way i wanted it, but once i did, i ran apt-get and upgraded and got all the packages i needed.

i even changed my sources.list file to grab the unstable (sid) packages, so now i run sid and have not had any problems at all. internet, network, cd-burning, firefox, thunderbird, kde3.2.2, xfree86, and others, all work fine. i have never been happier with a linux distro (i have tried them all seems like :o)) and will stay with debian for life!