Debian Unstable

Installing Sid

Acquire the daily businesscard ISO.
- These won't work from time to time, especiallye when base packages are being upgraded (the installer will expect a version which is no longer available)
Prepare external firmware, if necessary
Boot the ISO, selecting an Expert install

Install sudo. Edit /etc/sudoers (using visudo) to allow the sudo group to run all commands without a password:

%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Edit /etc/default/rcS, enabling FSCKFIX, VERBOSE, RAMRUN, RAMLOCK
Edit /etc/default/grub, removing "quiet" from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
- Rerun update-grub
Ensure LABEL or UUID directives are being used in /etc/fstab
- If not, retrieve them using blkid, and replace the /dev references
Install mcelog. Edit /etc/default/mcelog, adding "--syslog_error" to DAEMON_OPTS.
Install ntpd. Edit /etc/default/ntp, changing NTPD_OPTS to '-g -x'.
- This allows the clock to be arbitrarily set once (presumably on startup), without slew delay
Install mingetty. Open /etc/inittab and convert 'getty 38400' to 'mingetty'.
Install openssh-server. Disable password-based authentication (use only keys).
- Debian already ships OpenSSH configured to use Protocol 2 only.

Clone my home directory from https://github.com/dankamongmen/dankhome.git
Set a color for the local machine in .pcolor
- This is based on the binary bin/color, and hooks to PS1 in .bashrc
Install compiz and gdm3.
If SSH keys will be homed on this (hopefully local) machine...
- Install libpam-ssh, and configure it
- Recently, this can be done entirely inside of debconf -- no editing of PAM configs by hand
Remove info and install pinfo
FIXME plenty more..