This manual was created for Sarge's debian-installer, based on
the Woody installation manual for boot-floppies, which was based
on earlier Debian installation manuals, and on the Progeny
distribution manual which was released under GPL in 2003.
This document is written in DocBook XML. Output formats are generated
by various programs using information from the
docbook-xml
and
docbook-xsl
packages.
In order to increase the maintainability of this document, we use
a number of XML features, such as entities and profiling attributes.
These play a role akin to variables and conditionals in programming
languages. The XML source to this document contains information for
each different architecture — profiling attributes are used to
isolate certain bits of text as architecture-specific.