Daniel Baumann wrote: > Marco Ghirlanda wrote: > > Chris Lamb? Who's Chris? > > Chris Lamb, or lamby on irc.oftc.net
Me. :) Regarding an installer, you'll have to be a little more specific to what you are after. There are three different types of installer that I can think of: 1. "Normal" Debian Installer This is a Debian Live image with a seperate kernel and initrd which (when selected from the bootloader) launches into a standard Debian Installer instance, just as if you had downloaded a CD image of Debian and booted it. This means that Debian is installed by fetching and installing .deb packages using debootstrap, either from the CD or some mirror, resulting in a real Debian system being installed to the hard disk. This whole process can be preseeded and customised in a number of ways; see the relevant wiki pages[0] and installation guides[1] for more. This is working now. 2. "Live" Debian Installer This is a Debian Live image with a seperate kernel and initrd which (when selected from the bootloader) launches into an instance of the Debian Installer. Installation will proceed as of #1 but at the actual package installation stage, instead of using debootstrap to fetch and install .deb packages, the "live" filesystem image is copied to the target. The Debian Installer then proceeds to install and configure things such as bootloaders and local users, etc. This is working now (assuming you use live-installer >= 6 from unstable - see Daniel's message for the link). 3. "Ubuntu"-style installer This is where you boot into a graphical Debian Live system and run a wizard-based program which installs and configures the live system, all the time remaining inside the live graphical environment. This is currently NOT possible with Debian Live. Please note: * Please note my careful use of capital letters when referring to the "Debian Installer" - when used like this I refer explicitly to the official installer for the Debian system, not anything else. See its Wikipedia page[2] for more. It is often seen abbreviated to d-i.) * In the place of selecting options from a bootloader it is possible to use kexec to launch immediately into a Debian Installer instance without requiring a reboot or fiddling with boot options. I don't know whether this is generally supported or advised, but it works for me. * It would probably be not too difficult to start one of the first two installation processes via the win32-loader program[3]. (Long mail, sorry, but I can copy/paste it straight into the manual and link other people to it.) /Lamby [0] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian-Installer [3] http://goodbye-microsoft.com/more.html -- Chris Lamb, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0x634F9A20
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