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While this frontend seems to work fine since complete and working debian installation can be currently performed, help is still needed in polishing and prettifying the frontend and many questions extended descriptions. While this frontend seems to work since complete and working debian installation can be currently performed, help is still needed in polishing and prettifying the frontend and providing fonts needed for non latin languages.
We need a font package that cover
most of the unicode character set, while not being tto big.
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While a GTK port for [http://www.directfb.org DirectFrameBuffer ] is being worked on the only way to test the graphical debian installer is to use a [https://debian.polito.it/downloads/ X server] developed ad-hoc for this purpose. If you want to give a try to the graphical installer, you can download an experimental Etch [https://debian.polito.it/downloads/debian-testing-i386-20050918-GTK-netinst.iso netinst image] that boots up using the graphical frontend as default option.

DebianInstaller


Installing Debian Using A GUI

The last attempt to make a GUI for DebianInstaller, which was inactive for a long time but is now once again being worked on, involves adding a GTK frontend to d-i. Demo images have been produced of a working installer using this new frontend.

[https://debian.polito.it/downloads/d-i_gtk_snapshots/ A typical debian installation process, performed in english]

[https://debian.polito.it/downloads/d-i_gtk_snapshots_nonlatin/ Some screenshots of non latin alphabets]

While this frontend seems to work since complete and working debian installation can be currently performed, help is still needed in polishing and prettifying the frontend and providing fonts needed for non latin languages. We need a font package that cover most of the unicode character set, while not being tto big.

If you want to give a try to the graphical installer, you can download an experimental Etch [https://debian.polito.it/downloads/debian-testing-i386-20050918-GTK-netinst.iso netinst image] that boots up using the graphical frontend as default option.