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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.

You can:

go to the Home page of the project

Contact:

Email: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
IRC: #debian-boot

Contents

Information for users
Development

Information for users

Read the Frequently Asked Questions first
Read the Installation Manual first as well:
- the stable version
- the testing version
- the latest version

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 / USB media

If you want to make images and CD/DVD related stuff:

Build your own Debian CDs with this HowTo or with Simple-CDD
Create a bootable USB installation media
Download a partial mirror of only specified packages
Use DebianLive
Integrate a third party network driver with DebianInstaller's netinst

Internationalization resources

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

How to help us develop the installer
How to checkout the source
Read the developer reference for the installer: Debian Installer internals
/GUI - information and status of the graphical installer
/Accessibility - how to test it
/Salsa-CI - Continuous Integration on Salsa
/Build - how to build your own DebianInstaller images
/Modify - how to modify an existing Installer image
/Bugs and /BugsPolicy
/ConsoleLayout - console font and keyboard configuration
/ProcessingInstallationReports - processing installation reports
/PartmanCrypto - encrypted filesystem support in partman
/Manual - uploading the manual
/Uploading - ?HowTo -- uploading of d-i packages (mostly for l10n updates)

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 Jessie development
Goals for Wheezy development
Goals for Squeeze development
Release process overview
Release announcement draft
Comprehensive changelogs of the whole debian-installer
summary of packages providing udebs that have different versions in testing and unstable; also mentions build dependencies for the debian-installer package.
Installability of udebs

Ports

Status of d-i port to hurd-i386
d-i development for the m68k port
d-i development for the ?GNU/kFreeBSD port

Wiki pages

All wiki pages about debian-installer:

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