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Man! Why not to reconfigure the X server?!?

Everything said above is correct. However, I had Debian Sarge running in a 486 with 16 MB of RAM. I used it as home server for long time, no X of course. To install Debian 2 floppies are needed and a good Internet connection. You can run X with 48 MB, but use one of those lightweight window managers. KDE and such are not suitable. For instance, when installing Debian do not install 'Desktop Environment'. Install only base system and add X and a window manager of choice manually. You will see there is plenty of hdd space left after install.

AFAIK there is dispute which is better, XviD or libavcodec (FFmpeg). Why should someone mess with that inferior DivX? Or maybe things have changed recently and DivX is on top now?

Check jumper settings, with CS setting there must be matching cable. Also try clearing CMOS.

Has any of you succeeded with parted? I need to move an ext2 partition in order to free some space in the beginning of disk, Parted keeps giving me an error message: Strange disk layout, ...not supported (yet).

You are better off with a binary rpm package.