I just did an install using debboostrap. I'd done this before with success, but perhaps I forgot how painful it was.

So I got the file system installed, and the thing boots on its own, X is running, etc, but I keep running into things that were never configured that I'm not accustomed to needing to configure. Here is an example:

My loopback network route does not exist. Actually all of my networking has had to be manually configured, starting with loading the tulip driver and including all the little stuff like "hosts" and "interfaces". Wasn't there some kind of network configure script that walks you through all this?

In short, I think I'm missing using some post-install scripts that are suppose to get things done. Although I'm used to manually configuring things with Slackware, doing this is MUCH harder on Debian (Slackware is much easier than Debian in general, but I'm sold on Debian's superior package management and huge repository) and you have to be careful how you do it or package-updates will revert your changes.

Update:

So I got most of my network working by manually entering the NIC module in /etc/modules, then an alias to it in a file in /etc/modutils.

Again, I'm thinking there is a config script that I could run to do all this?