After putting my mini-ITX system in an usable (although not fully assembled) state, I installed Ubuntu, gave it a quick glance and went for Debian. Ubuntu is just too bloated for my taste.

Anyhow, I downloaded the debian-installer rc2 netinst iso and started the installation using the 2.6 install-kernel. Everything went as expected until bootloader installation: neither grub nor lilo wanted to install themselves.

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I received the VIA EPIA MII 12000 yesterday. Poor VIA, they haven’t even packaged a manual. After finding the docs, fiddling around with the poor labeled connectors, replacing a screw of the cd-bay lid with a shorter one so my harddrive fits in, the box is assembled. Mostly. The CD-RW drive is still missing.