The story so far (2): Success with Debian 4.0?

Finally re-installed Debian 4.0 “etch” on the Toshiba Satellite Pro M10. It’s a dual-boot installation with Windows XP. I installed from a CD (I only used CD 1, .iso image available on the Debian website here. Using Jigdo to download is highly recommended. Find out more here).
One thing to note when burning an .iso image [...]

The story so far: Failures

…It’s more like my own failures, not the distro in particular ><
Anyway, here’s a quick recap: I’d installed Debian 3.1 ’sarge’ on my Toshiba Satellite Pro M10. It left me with a working Linux system but no GUI installed. I tried (unsuccessfully) to use tasksel to install the relevant packages for a desktop environment, but [...]