Debian-Installer
Original author(s) | Debian Project |
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Developer(s) | Debian Install System Team |
Initial release | June 6, 2005 |
Stable release |
8.0 (Jessie)
/ April 25, 2015[1] |
Development status | Active |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Microcosm of Debian, made of udebs. (Loading from Microsoft Windows is supported via win32-loader.) |
Available in | 87 languages |
Type | System installer |
License | GPL |
Website |
www |
Debian-Installer is an installation program designed for the Debian Linux distribution. It originally appeared in Debian release 3.1 (Sarge),[2] released on June 6, 2005,[3] although the first release of a Linux distribution it was used with was Skolelinux Venus (1.0).[4] 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 (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 (Etch). Since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), it uses Xorg instead of DirectFB.
debootstrap
debootstrap is software which allows installation of a Debian base system into a subdirectory of another, already installed operating system.[5] It needs access to a Debian repository and doesn't require an installation CD.[5] It can also be installed and run from another operating system or to create a "cross-debootstrapping", a rootfs for a machine of a different architecture,[5] for instance, OpenRISC.[6] There is also a largely equivalent version written in C – cdebootstrap, which is used in debian-installer.[5]
Debootstrap can be used to install Debian in a system without using an installation disk but can also be used to run a different Debian flavor in a chroot environment.[7] This way it is possible to create a full (minimal) Debian installation which can be used for testing purposes, or for building packages in a "clean" environment (as e.g. pbuilder does).[7]
See also
References
- ↑ "Debian "jessie" Release Information". Debian. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
- ↑ "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released". Debian. 2005-06-06. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
- ↑ "Debian "sarge" Release Information". Debian. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
- ↑ "First distribution ships with Debian-Installer". Debian. 2004-06-21. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
- 1 2 3 4 "Debootstrap". Debian wiki.
- ↑ Svensson, Christian. "[Openrisc] Introducing: Debian for OpenRISC". Openrisc mailing list. OpenCores.org, equivalent to ORSoC AB. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
- 1 2 "debootstrap". Debian man pages.