Installing GNUSTEP manually to your Harddisk
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Get root permissions
ctrl-alt-f1
su
(if you set a root password with passwd, you can
switch to graphics mode with ctrl-alt-f2 and
continue in a terminal, try sudo su there)

Create a partition on your harddisk
(in the graphics mode you can use qtparted to
resize existing filesystems)
cfdisk /dev/hda

Create a filesystem on your partition
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1

Create a /target directory
mkdir /target

Mount the created partition
mount /dev/hda1 /target

Install a base Debian system
cd /target
cdebootstrap sid . http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/

Setup the /etc/fstab
echo "/dev/hda1       /               ext2    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1" >> /target/etc/fstab
echo "proc            /proc           proc    defaults                   0       0" >> /target/etc/fstab

Setup the networking
cp -p /etc/hostname /target/etc
cp -p /etc/network/interfaces /target/etc/network/interfaces
cp -p /etc/resolv.conf /target/etc/resolv.conf
echo "auto eth0" >> /target/etc/network/interfaces
echo "iface eth0 inet dhcp" >> /target/etc/network/interfaces

Install the Linux Kernel and Drivers
rsync -av /boot/ /target/boot/
rsync -av /lib/modules/ /target/lib/modules/

Install the configuration
rsync -av /etc/skel/ /target/etc/skel/
rsync -av /var/www/ /target/var/www/

Install the GNUstep Software
chroot /target
mount -a
apt-get update
apt-get install locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales
apt-get install grub gnustep gnustep-games gnustep-devel menu wmaker x-window-system-core bubblefishymon randomize-lines wmnd
exit

Bind mount /dev
mount --bind /dev /target/dev

Install the GNU GRUB boot loader
grub-install --root-directory=/target /dev/hda

Create user, set a root Password, update the GRUB menu
chroot /target
useradd me
passwd
udpate-grub
sync
exit

Reboot
reboot