Media Center/Setup

Create a bootable USB Debian network installer

1. Download Debian USB booter and the tiny CD iso. [1]
   1. Download "Tiny CDs, floppy disks, USB sticks" booter from /debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz .
   2. Download the "Small CD" 180mb iso. [2]
2. Plug in a USB stick to a Debian based machine.
3. zcat the booter onto the stick (let's say the USB stick is /dev/sdX).

$ zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX

1. Unplug the stick and plug it back in because shit is weird like that.
2. Mount the stick.

$ mkdir ~/temp
$ mount /dev/sdX ~/temp

1. Copy the Small CD iso to the stick.

$ cp debian-503-i386-netinst.iso ~/temp/

1. Unmount the stick.

$ umount ~/temp
$ rm -R ~/temp

1. You know how bootable Debian network installer stick.

Install Debian

1. Miloh provided the machine with everything already assembled.
2. Futs with BIOS, everything looked good. Should take a look at the display settings to see how I can get it to default to HDMI.
3. Plug in the USB stick.
4. Reboot.
5. Hit F11 or F12 to bring up the media boot screen, boot off of the stick.
6. Debian should now boot up with a menu picking what you want to do.
7. Pick installer
8. Install Debian, fill in more here!
9. Standard Desktop install

Post installation tweaks

• apt-get install openssh-server screen sl vlc mpd
• Add your user user to /etc/sudoers
• Create a mediacenter user
• Grand user rights to audio and some such via /etc/group