Debian-Installer

Debian Installer is the installation program for the Linux distribution Debian. It guides you step by step through the installation of the system. Debian - Installer can also be adapted for the installation of other distributions, so it is one of the two official installers of Ubuntu.

Technology

The installer is modular and extensible. For the interaction with the user, he has both an ncurses-based character user interface (TUI ) and a graphical user interface based on GTK - DirectFB. He uses cdebconf, debconf in a reimplementation of C to configure when installing the new system.

Under the name of win32 -loader there is a migration wizard from Microsoft Windows, which provides various settings from Windows to Debian and loads the actual installer either from the Internet or the network or from an installation CD.

Win32 -loader was initially an independent project, there was only the network version is available for the. After a long recording process, it was part of the official Debian distribution.

Dependence

Win32 -loader is highly dependent on projects such as NSIS, GRUB 2, Loadlin and Debian - Installer. The inspiration came through related projects such as Wubi and InstLux.

Features

• Transparent, automatic detection of 32 - or 64 -bit architectures, the corresponding software packages are installed so later.
• Evaluation of any existing Windows configuration ( time zone, proxy, etc.) that are transmitted during the installation.
• Until now translated into 87 languages. The initially selected language will be used for the entire installation process by default.

History

It was originally for the Debian version 3.1 (codename " sarge " ) was developed, with the first official release of a Linux distribution, with which it was delivered, skolelinux Venus (1.0) was. Initially, only with Debian 4.0 (codename " etch " ) was offered the character- based interface, the graphical user interface has been introduced.