Prior to installiog Debian, or any Linux distribution for that matter, an administrator should know whether he/she will be using single or dualfmultiboot, and what his boot firmware is (BIOS or UEFI). Itis also good to have some idea of where he/she will place the boot code, what filesystem types he/she will use, and some idea of his partitioning scheme. Ifunsure, the defaults offered by the Debian installer can be taken safely. Iffull disk encryption will be used, the setup depends on the hardware implementation and will probably need to be set up prior to installation. Directory encryption can be set up after the installation.
Once your system is set up, the next major issue to address is installing additional packages, which leads us to the next chapter on package management.
