We're in France at the in-laws. Today I'm installing Debian Lenny onto my mother-in-law-(equivalent)'s Asus notebook.

The first problem was getting the new RAM I bought for her into the unit. There are three possible holes in the base and non of them are marked, but I was lucky and guessed the right one first time. The first DIMM went in okay, the second needed re-seating and some coersion to stay in place and be detected by the BIOS.

The second problem was that the Asus's ACPI BIOS was rubbish and the Debian installer stopped dead in the water. I added acpi=off pci=nommconf and the installer is running happily at the moment. It's pulling most of the files it needs off the 5.0.3 DVD, the rest directly off the fr.debian.org mirror, 14 minutes to go....