Once you have chosen a boot media, Stage One of the installation process can begin. In this Stage of the installation the Base System is installed. This is the smallest Debian installation possible that provides all the tools needed to complete the installation of additional packages upon rebooting the system for Stage Two.
If you boot from the rescue floppy or from the CD-ROM, the first screen you see will look something like the following:
If everything goes successfully the following Release Notes screen will be presented:
