Debian-Installer is a
system installer designed for the
Debian Linux distribution. It originally appeared in the Debian release 3.1 (Sarge),
released on June 6, 2005,
although the first release of a
Linux distribution that used it was
Skolelinux
Skolelinux/Debian-Edu is a Linux distribution intended for educational use and a Debian Pure Blend. The free and open source software project was founded in Norway in 2001 and is now being internationally developed. Its name is a direct transla ...
(Debian-Edu) 1.0, released in June 2004.
It is also one of two official installers available for
Ubuntu
Ubuntu ( ) is a Linux distribution based on Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. Ubuntu is officially released in three editions: '' Desktop'', ''Server'', and ''Core'' for Internet of things devices and robots. All ...
, the other being called ''
Ubiquity
Ubiquity is a synonym for omnipresence, the property of being present everywhere.
Ubiquity may also refer to:
* Ubiquity (software), a simple graphical installer made for the Ubuntu operating system
* Ubiquity (Firefox), an experimental extensi ...
'' (itself based on parts of debian-installer) which was introduced in Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake).
It makes use of ''cdebconf'' (a re-implementation of
debconf in
C) to perform configuration at install time.
Originally, it was only supported under text-mode and
ncurses
ncurses (new curses) is a programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces (TUI) in a terminal-independent manner. It is a toolkit for developing "GUI-like" ...
. A graphical front-end (using
GTK
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and propriet ...
-
DirectFB
DirectFB (Direct Frame Buffer) is a software library with a small memory footprint that provides graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction layer, and integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and mult ...
) was first introduced in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), it is used over
Xorg
X.Org Server is the free and open-source implementation of the X Window System display server stewarded by the X.Org Foundation.
Implementations of the client-side X Window System protocol exist in the form of ''X11 libraries'', which serve ...
instead of DirectFB.
debootstrap
debootstrap is
software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
...
which allows installation of a
Debian base system into a subdirectory of another, already installed
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...
.
It needs access to a Debian repository and doesn't require an installation CD.
It can also be installed and run from another operating system or to create a "cross-debootstrapping", a
rootfs for a machine of a different architecture,
for instance, OpenRISC.
There is also a largely equivalent version written in
C – cdebootstrap, which is used in debian-installer.
debootstrap can be used to install Debian in a system without using an installation disk but can also be used to run a different Debian flavor in a
chroot
A chroot on Unix and Unix-like operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is run in such a modified environment cannot name (and therefore normall ...
environment.
This way it is possible to create a full (minimal) Debian installation which can be used for testing purposes, or for building packages in a "clean" environment (e.g., as
pbuilder does).
Features
* Set language
* Select location
* Configure keyboard
* Configure network
* Setup users and passwords
* Configure clock
* Partition disk
** Create partition
** Format device
** LVM/Cryptsetup
* Install system base
* Configure package manager
** Configure mirrorlist
* Configure bootloader
See also
*
Anaconda
Anacondas or water boas are a group of large snakes of the genus '' Eunectes''. They are found in tropical South America. Four species are currently recognized.
Description
Although the name applies to a group of snakes, it is often used ...
*
Calamares
Squid is eaten in many cuisines; in English, the culinary name calamari is often used for squid dishes.''Oxford English Dictionary'', 3rd edition, 2002''s.v.''/ref> There are many ways to prepare and cook squid. Fried squid is common in the Me ...
*
Ubiquity
Ubiquity is a synonym for omnipresence, the property of being present everywhere.
Ubiquity may also refer to:
* Ubiquity (software), a simple graphical installer made for the Ubuntu operating system
* Ubiquity (Firefox), an experimental extensi ...
*
Wubi
References
External links
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{{Debian
Debian
Free software programmed in C
Linux installation software
Software that uses GTK