Debian-Installer


Debian-Installer is a system installer designed for the Debian Linux distribution. It originally appeared in the Debian release 3.1, released on, although the first release of a Linux distribution that used it was Skolelinux 1.0, released in June 2004.
It is also one of two official installers available for Ubuntu, the other being called Ubiquity which was introduced in Ubuntu 6.06.
It makes use of cdebconf to perform configuration at install time.
Originally, it was only supported under text-mode and ncurses. A graphical front-end was first introduced in Debian 4.0. Since Debian 6.0, it is used over 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. It needs access to a Debian repository and doesn't require an installation CD. 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, for instance, OpenRISC. There is also a largely equivalent version written in C – cdebootstrap, which is used in debian-installer.
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. This way it is possible to create a full Debian installation which can be used for testing purposes, or for building packages in a "clean" environment.

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