Getting started w/ Debian

[Matthew Valites]

> What does it matter how he gets it installed? I know piles of people who just 
> want a cd to put in the drive. Maybe he doesn't have a net connection? You 
> say it like it's a bad thing to install Debian via Knoppix.

Nothing in my email even remotely hinted at the fact that installing it
via Knoppix is a bad idea.  One advantage of debian over redhat is it's
netinstall feature.  If somebody's switching to debian, why not take
advantage of that feature (obviously contingent on a network connection,
as you pointed out)?  Also, you say "people who just want a cd to put in
the drive".  That's what this is for:
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/

my two cents,
~Matt