heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

[David Millet]

ok so i've been doing this linux desktop thing for about a year now, 
started with redhat, then went to mandrake, now i want to move on to 
debian, i'm still a noob so i've been reading up on the install 
instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install but 
before i got started i wanted to ask you all a few questions:

1) are these instructions 
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install the best for a noob 
like me or are there some better ones out there somewhere?
2) i have 2 harddrives, hda and hdb, hda has win2000 on it, its divided 
into 3 fat32 partitions, hdb has an old install of mandrake on it, i 
want to put debian on hdb, is the filesystem manager on the install cds 
comprehensible enough to where i'll be able to format the partitions on 
hdb without messing up hda? all my important data is on hda, so if 
something happens to hda i'm screwed
3) i see that lilo is the default bootloader, i know that if i put the 
windows lines in lilo.conf and i run /sbin/lilo it should let me choose 
between booting into windows or linux when i restart, are there any 
hangups or problems i need to look out for?  i have some experience 
editing the lilo.conf file with good success in mandrake...
4) once i get debian up and running, i want to set it up to where the 
second partition on hda, my win2000 fat32 drive, is mounted as my home 
directory as a user. in other words, i want one of my fat32 partitions 
mounted at /home/david/ after i create the david user account. can that 
be done?

thanx in advance for the help.  i'm really excited about debian.

david

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