Debian-Installer

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Debian-Installer
Developer:	Debian Project
Latest release:	Etch RC2 / March 19, 2007
OS:	GNU/Linux
Use:	operating system installer
License:	GPL
Website:	www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Debian-Installer is a program for installing Linux distributions. It is the official installer for Debian GNU/Linux. It is also one of two official installers available for Ubuntu; the other one is called Ubiquity (itself based on parts of debian-installer) and was introduced in Ubuntu 6.06. It was originally written for the Debian release sarge, and the first "release" version of a Linux distribution it was used with was Skolelinux Venus (1.0). The second one was Ubuntu 4.10 ("Warty Warthog"). It makes use of cdebconf (a reimplementation of debconf in C) to perform configuration at install time.

Originally, it did not use graphics. A new graphical version of the installer (using GTK+-DirectFB) will be a part of Debian 4.0 (codenamed "etch").

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Debian Installer boot screen

Full list of options on the installer

Older version of the installer