I have DEBIAN 3.0-r4 CD 's and want to install it on my Laptop (MSI-M510C MEGABOOK; Graphical Device is ATI Radeon 9700). Will it cause any problem. How much space approximaytely I will need (X-Window and Office included). And I dont know which window manager is good for Debian. Maybe you can think it is personel choice but just some advice. For example GNOME is good with FEDORA and KDE with SUSE. Which one will be the right choice for Debian. Thanks for suggestions...

Lets see here. I suggest that you download Sarge Netinstall. It is easy to install, and you don't have to burn more than one cd -- the rest of the packages is downloaded using apt. You can find the .iso for sarge at debian.org

How much space you need depends on what you are going to use it for -- and if there is another system on the disk aswell. If you are asking for how much space you need for swap etc -- the install will set up this for you. The easiest thing to do is just to have all partitions on one disk. Works just fine for me.

When it comes to what windowmanager you want to use -- I suggest you go with the one that suits you the best. Gnome/KDE would work just fine. I like Fluxbox, but that's just me :-)

Good Luck!

i'm using ubuntu right now, and it's a debian based distro that has Gnome included... I also have KDE installed, but frankly, Gnome takes the cake for me... KDE just seems to hog memory the same way XP used to... whereas Gnome is slick and well laid out...

-olly