Installation

Etch was the first release of Debian to have a graphical installer that allows the user to use a mouse to point and click during the install, rather than just the keyboard. To initiate the graphical installer, which does not start by default, type "installgui" at the boot screen, as shown below.

Supported Architectures

Etch can be installed on the following computer architectures:

• i386 – x86-32 architecture designed for Intel/AMD 32-bit PCs and various other systems
• amd64 – x86-64 architecture designed for Intel/AMD 64-bit PCs and various other systems
• alpha – DEC Alpha architecture
• sparc – Sun SPARC architecture on Sun-4m, Sun-4u, and Sun-4v systems
• arm – ARM architecture on Risc PC and various embedded systems (little-endian)
• powerpc – PowerPC architecture
• hppa – HP PA-RISC architecture
• ia64 – Intel Itanium (IA-64) architecture
• mips, mipsel – MIPS architecture (big-endian and little-endian)
• s390 – IBM ESA/390 architecture and z/Architecture

Source: wikipedia (link)

Screenshot

Default background Debian 4.0 "Etch" running GNOME.