> 
> Look on the bright side, once you actually get past the Debian installer
> you'll never (in theory) have to touch it again. You can upgrade to the
> latest distribution without going through an upgrade installer or
> reinstalling, and you probally won't even have to reboot.
> 
> Hurray for apt-get dist-upgrade :)
> 


yeah unless you do something foolish like nuking your linux partition so
you can install diablo 2, only to find diablo 2 a) doesn't work well on
your machine and b) wasn't worth the wait.

lessons learned.

~j