| Developer(s) | Debian Project |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 5.0.1 (Lenny) / April 11, 2009 |
| Operating system | Debian, (loading from Microsoft Windows is supported via win32-loader) |
| Type | operating system installer |
| License | GPL (free software) |
| Website | debian.org/devel/debian-installer |
Debian-Installer is the installation program for Debian. It was originally written for the Debian 3.1 release (codename: “sarge”), although the first "release" version of a Linux distribution it was used with was Skolelinux Venus (1.0). It is also one of two official installers available for Ubuntu; the other being called Ubiquity (itself based on parts of debian-installer) which was introduced in Ubuntu 6.06 (codename: "Dapper Drake").
It makes use of cdebconf (a reimplementation of debconf in C) to perform configuration at install time.
Originally, it only supported text-mode and ncurses. A graphical front-end (using GTK+-DirectFB) was first introduced in Debian 4.0 (codename: “etch”). Since Debian 6.0 (codename: “Squeeze”), it uses Xorg instead of DirectFB.
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