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Installing Debian Wheezy (testing) With debootstrap From A Grml Live Linux This tutorial explains how to install Debian Wheezy (testing) with the help of debootstrap from a Grml Live Linux system (like it is used as a rescue system at Webtropia). This should work - with minor changes - for other Debian and Ubuntu versions as well. By following this guide, it is possible to configure the system to your needs (OS version, partitioning, RAID, LVM, etc.) instead of depending on the few pre-configured images that your server provider offers.
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Why not also use the full Grml-live on a bootable USB drive with one of the wheezy Beta4 netinst CD images at the Debian Installer site http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ saved on the same drive?? These would be used together for installing Debian Wheezy (testing) onto the software RAID1 and LVM server setup.
This way, one could save a bit of bandwidth by not having to run the full 'debootstrap' command
debootstrap --arch amd64 testing /mnt ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/
Knoppix http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html already has this capability in a more convoluted fashion for installing its customized mix of Wheezy and Sid.
Just a suggestion here :)