DebianInstaller is the official installation system for the Debian distribution since the Sarge (3.1) release. It is brought to you by the Debian Installer Team.
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Contents
Information for users
Read the Frequently Asked Questions first
Using Debian Installer
Automate installs with preseed
Install Debian on a system using Serial ATA (SATA) RAID (dmraid)
Install Debian under User Mode Linux
Install Debian as Xen (Domain0) or in Xen (DomU)
Install Debian on Multipath devices
Troubleshooting
How to rescue a broken system
Creating CD
If you want to make images and CD/DVD related stuff:
Build your own Debian CDs with this HowTo or with Simple-CDD
Download a partial mirror of only specified packages
Use DebianLive, which uses Debian Installer for hardware detection
Integrate a third party network driver with DebianInstaller's netinst
Internationalization resources
Supported languages, with nice maps of world domination
Other information
Third party using the installer
For remote installs
An idea to perform remote graphical Debian installations using a web browser
Additional links can be found in /Links.
Development
Daily developmental builds status
How to help us develop the installer
Read the developer reference for the installer: Debian Installer internals
/GUI - information and status of the graphical installer
/Accessibility - how to test it
/Build - how to build your own DebianInstaller images
/Modify - how to modify an existing Installer image
/Bugs and /BugsPolicy
/ProcessingInstallationReports - processing installation reports
/PartmanCrypto - encrypted filesystem support in partman
Organization
/Meetings and in-person /WorkSessions
/Tasks - tasks involved in the installer development and who is in charge of what
/SpamClean - coordinating the cleaning of spam from the debian-boot mailing list
Release preparation
Goals for Squeeze development
Global status of the installer
Release process HOWTO of the installer
Release announcement draft
Comprehensive changelogs of the whole debian-installer
summary of packages providing udebs that have different versions in testing and unstable
Ports
Status of d-i port to hurd-i386
d-i development for the m68k port
d-i development for the GNU/kFreeBSD port
Old material
These pages are kept here for historical reasons
How to work around problems with combined RAID + crypto setups