o  Debian's website is www.debian.org (not surprisingly)

 o  I tried ot avoid making boot floppies (e.g., bootstrapping
    from Win2k, but no luck--I had to in the end).  I didn't
    want to download a CD iso because it wasn't available from
    an official mirror--but a bootable CD approach might be a
    lot easier

 o  Keep the Win2k partition as FAT32 and download the Debian
    install files into a top-level directory such as c:\debian,
    They can be accessed from the local hard disk during install

 *  Use the "testing" dist (woody)--rather than the "stable" one
    (potato)--wherein Xfree86 4 is supported (needed for the new
    nvidia graphics adapters).  I tried "stable" first and had
    to upgrade

 o  Buy a copy (or a couple of copies) of Partition Magic to
    shrink the Win2k partition.  I didn't have one and had to
    use GNU "parted" (not a bad alternative, actually, but proba-
    bly harder to use)

 *  Even though the accton en1207D network card in the new IBMs
    appears unsupported, it works with the "rtl8139" driver.

 o  Installation-related commands to get familiar with: "dpkg",
    "dpkg-reconfigure", "tasksel", "apt-get"

 o  After the install, disable risky, unneeded services

    cd /etc/rc2.d
    mkdir OFF
    mv -i *sendmail* *bind* OFF

    I think there's an easier way to do this (like RedHat's
    chkconfig, but I haven't found it yet)