Around 2005, I published in my personal blog in Wordpress a small tutorial on how to install Debian the Nerd-way. That post is long gone now, and it was more like a small reference guide for myself than anything else. Recently I tried some of those steps again just for fun to see they still work and they do!
As you move on in this tutorial, you will notice it resembles a lot the Arch Linux installation method (hence the title). That's not a surprise since all of this existed even before Arch was popularized.
This work grabs some steps from the Instaling Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System, in the Random Bits appendix from the Debian documentation. I decided to create one of my own because some of those steps could be either abbreviated or more detailed.
DISCLAIMER: as you already suspect, these steps will potentially break your system! Read every step carefully and check what applie
