Debian-Installer is a
system installer for
Debian
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and its derivatives. It originally appeared in Skolelinux (Debian-Edu) 1.0,
released in June 2004, but is now used as the official installation system since
Debian 3.1 (Sarge), which was released on June 6, 2005.
Features
Debian-Installer consists of two modes: a
text
Text may refer to:
Written word
* Text (literary theory)
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mode and a
graphical mode. Multiple components of the installer exists to configure various aspects of the installed system, and configuration of some components may require user input.
Regardless of which mode is selected, the installer first prompts the user for a language selection. Some of the tasks the installer performs after a language selection is as follows:
* Detects hardware
* Detect installation media
* Configure the network
* Configure
APT/select mirrors
* Set up user accounts
* Detect other operating systems
Win32-loader
win32-loader (officially Debian-Installer Loader) is a discontinued
[https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/05/msg00003.html] component of the Debian Linux distribution that runs on
Windows
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and has the ability to load the actual Debian installer either from the network (as in the version i
an official website or from
CD-ROM
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media (as in the version included in
Jessie CD images).
See also
*
Anaconda
*
Calamares
*
Ubiquity
*
Wubi
External links
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References
{{Debian
Debian
Free software programmed in C
Linux installation software
Software that uses GTK