Debian-Installer

Debian installer
Developer(s)	Debian Project
Stable release	5.0.1 (Lenny) / 2009-04-11; 7 months ago
Operating system	Debian, (loading from Microsoft Windows is supported via win32-loader)
Type	operating system installer
License	GNU General Public License
Website	debian.org/devel/debian-installer

Debian-Installer is the installation program for Debian. It was originally written for the Debian 3.1 release (codename: "sarge"), although the first "release" version of a Linux distribution it was used with was Skolelinux Venus (1.0). It is also one of two official installers available for Ubuntu; the other being called Ubiquity (itself based on parts of debian-installer) which was introduced in Ubuntu 6.06 (codename: "Dapper Drake").

It makes use of cdebconf (a reimplementation of debconf in C) to perform configuration at install time.

Originally, it only supported text-mode and ncurses. A graphical front-end (using GTK+-DirectFB) was first introduced in Debian 4.0 (codename: "etch").

[edit] See also

• win32-loader

[edit] External links

• Project home page

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