Debian Sarge Installation Slide Show

brunotorres writes "I've made an slide-show, presenting the steps of Debian sarge (testing) installation. I put images of all relevant steps of the installation and a brief description of each one. It's nice to notice that debian-installer is much more straightforward and user friendly in sarge than it was in woody."

Comments

Re:Aren't There Some OSS Graphical Installers?

[dondelelcaro]

Partitioning in particular is difficult (as always)

There is actually an automated partitioner. If you look at the 18th slide you can see where you can select "automatically partition disks" to have the installer do it for you.

As far as the Ubuntu installer goes, you're actually looking at the exact same installer, just with fewer questions asked.

Re:Aren't There Some OSS Graphical Installers?

[dondelelcaro]

Anaconda must be viable. Could the next version use it?

Unfortunatly, Anaconda does not work on the vast majority of architectures that Debian supports. Progeny currently uses anaconda as it's installer, but they only support i386.

debian-installer has hooks for supporting FD based installers, but as of this moment, no one has written such a beast. [Not that it's all that big of a deal anyway, as you can basically install Debian by just repeatedly pressing enter.]

Anyway, this question is well covered in the D-I FAQ.

Re:Ubuntu

[Sesse]

Ubuntu doesn't use Anaconda, you must be confusing it with Progeny.

/* Steinar */

Re:Expert mode?

[brunotorres]

Yes, I've gone into manual steps, because I wanted to show them. But you really can install it only pressing enter, and making very little options by yourself