That's what you get for running a *French* distribution.
Return to the flock, you errant sheep, and all will be well.
(Okay, Karsten. Race ya. Betcha I can have him running Red Hat 7.2 before you can get him running Debian whatevertheycallit).
My opening bid : When I installed Red Hat 7.2 off CD, the whole process was 15 minutes from booting off the CD to being on the Internet.