"But, you NEED to run the installer on that (bare metal) server!" Nope, I can just boot from knoppix (remember?) and mount the disk and run debootstrap on it.
Every so often I run into programmers and sysadmins that believe these things are a kind of magic. They're not. They're just files on a disk.
Love this presentation. Thank you!
edit: s/mount knoppix/boot from knoppix/