CrunchBang Linux

Also on the bottom is a section for choosing what kind of device you want to use for the LiveCD-thing (for this we'll choose hard disk) and which drive to put it in. Select the drive (on Windows this should probably be the C: drive) and press "Okay".

I have used unetbootin in the past. The quote above suggests, as I read it, that the user should install the iso to their c drive, rather than the usb. This would wreck their computer. Unetbootin explicitly says 'Take Care' and does not show the c-drive, because of this risk. Also, I'm not sure, but can you use unetbootin on Windows? Why are you mentioning the c-drive if not, because c-drive is Windows language, not gnu/linux. Why do they need to extract the files if you recommend to use netbootin also?

Unetbootin can be installled to a hard disk without destroying the existing system, and I have done this on a Windows box in order to install Linux in the past. You boot unetbootin which then downloads the files to install your distro of choice.

I haven't done it, but maybe the installed unetbootin can install a distro from files on a usb stick instead of from the net?

That is an issue with not having all of the required gstreamer plugins installed for GMusicBrowser.

I  make sure these are installed

sudo apt-get install w64codecs mpg321 libgstreamer-perl gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libgstreamer-interfaces-perl

If you are running 32bit w64codecs needs to be w32codecs instead

You should also make sure

deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main non-free

is in your /etc/apt/sources.list

Installing from a hard drive requires some work. Do you have a USB stick at hand? You could easily create a bootable USB stick with the Crunchbang ISO on it and install from that media. If you are using Windows, try the LinuxLive Installer (lili) -- when you are Linux user already, use the dd tool to copy the (hybrid) ISO to the stick.

With 1Gb of RAM, I would usually use 1GB swap. You can keep the partition that you have. (Vast_One thinks you should have more, but I don't think that's all that necessary...)

YMMV, though, especially depending on what you are planning to use your computer for.

I use a 4 gig size partition for all my swap areas no matter what memory or space is available.  It just works for me...

as you have said, what you want to do is install on separate partitions to your windows install.

Run the installer and you will be prompted to create partitions with gparted. You can create them from unpartitioned space. I always have separate root and home partitions. Unsure if swap partition will be created automagically as i always create one manually anyway.

Host name can be anything you like. I usually use os name and type - ie waldorf64. but whatever you like is ok.

I've installed many time alongside a windows install with no issues . . . well - except once when windows wasn't initially detected. The solution there was to 'sudo update-grub' once linux had booted. I think that was waldorf 32bit.

[edit] eh!! knew someone intelligent would beat me to it :\