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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 on Multipath devices
Install Debian via a virtual machine

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

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
/SpamClean - coordinating the cleaning of spam from the debian-boot mailing list

Release preparation

Goals for Jessie 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

Wiki pages

All wiki pages about debian-installer:

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