Package: installation-reports Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?> CD Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.6/i386/iso-cd/debian-506-i386-CD-1.iso Date: <Date and time of the install> yesterday Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> acer aspire 5732ZG Processor: pentium dual core Memory: Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred> Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O ] Detect network card: [E ] Configure network: [E ] Detect CD: [O ] Load installer modules: [O ] Detect hard drives: [O ] Partition hard drives: [O/E ] Install base system: [O ] Clock/timezone setup: [O ] User/password setup: [O ] Install tasks: [O ] Install boot loader: [E ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: <Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install.> Graphical install. Apart from not recognizing atheros AR8132 and AR5B93 Ethernet and Wireless card automatically, the real problem was this: I managed to correctly choose my USB Stick for automatic partitioning as I wanted and went ahead sucessfully until installing the bootloader, I wanted it on the USB Stick rather than harddrive, and to make sure to choose the right device designation for it, I went back to menu and entered Partition hard drives again to look it up, that's when trouble commenced: when I went back to the menu, I couldn't re-enter installing the boot loader and was kicked back to partitioning hard drives, when I finally chose to re-write the partition table in order to be let out of the circle, after doing so, installing the bootloader set in automatically without any prompts (probably because that's where I had interrupted the journey forward in installation, but in fact I hadn't chosen where to put it yet!) and terminated with an error message to the respect that it couldn't be installed, sorry, can't be more precise, but I think there was not much more info. I abandoned installation.