Debian installation with icewm window manager

Follow these steps if you wish to install debian with minimum apps and with icewm window manager.

Debian installation

Steps:
Insert the Debian DVD 1 and boot the machine from DVD.
Follow the screne instructions and create the required disk setup
During installation debian will ask for mirror to select, select the nearest mirror.
It may update the apt and fetch the security updates.
When it will ask for package selection, only select the Laptop and Base System modules, deselecting the Desktop enviornment.
After the instalaltion is over boot in to debian. You will boot into text mode.

Login as root and create a copy of the sources.lst from /etc/apt folder.
cp sources.list sources.list_ORIGINAL

comment the web resources from sources.list file. Incase if you are on low network bandwidth. [ We will tell debian to install all packges from DVD ]
insert the DVD1 into drive

apt-get update

apt-get install xserver-xorg mdetect xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfs xresprobe xserver-xorg-core discover

apt-get install icewm esound menu esound-clients aterm xterm firefox xutils xfonts-cyrillic fontconfig libmyspell3c2 sudo

Configure network interface
vim /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp


Add apt reposository
apt-get install netselect netselect-apt

execute following command to identify the fastest mirror to you
netselect ftp.debian.org http.us.debian.org ftp.iitm.ac.in
using the fastest mirror lets update the /etc/apt/source.list

vim /etc/apt/source.list
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main non-free contrib

save the file

apt-get update

For AMD Turion & Intel Centrino processors
Amd Turion 64 bit basically runs in 3 modes. I've AMD 1.8 GHz processor that runs in 3 modes. By default processor always runs in 800MHz when running application hits the 800MHz boundry it jumps to 1.6 GHz and when even that boundry is hit, it jumps to 1.8 GHz. The advantage is huge power saving with this type if cpu speed change and eventually giving more battery life on laptops.
I'm running debian Linux that doesn't install the package required to do this CPU speed shift.
Running following command to install the required package.

apt-get install powersaved

To install the grub-splashimage in debian

cd /boot/grub/
mkdir splashimages
apt-get install grub-splashimages
ln -s splashimages/dunes.xpm.gz splash.xpm.gz
update-grub

Incase if you want USB devices to be detected automatically
apt-get install hotplug
NOTE: Debian may upgrade your kernel, after installation of the kernel make sure you reboot immediately.

How to install KeePass X in debian
apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-gui libpng3
Get the debian package from http://www.keepassx.org/downloads
dpkg -i KeePassX-0.2.2.deb

Install BUM to control your services
apt-get install bum