Installing Debian on Dell M1210

Installation

Booting debian netinst from USB drive

Debian installer CD has some issues with the SATA and CD drivers that prevent installation to access to CD drive, there are some instruccions to solve this problem but they did't work for me. I did the installation booting from USB drive.

wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/\
main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
gzip -dc boot.img.gz >/dev/sdX

Enable USB drive boot from BIOS setup, and then Install Debian base system as usual.