- main-menu
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Shows the list of components to the user during installer operation,
and starts a component when it is selected. Main-menu's
questions are set to priority medium, so if your priority is set to
high or critical (high is the default), you will not see the menu. On
the other hand, if there is an error which requires your intervention,
the question priority may be downgraded temporarily to allow you
to resolve the problem, and in that case the menu may appear.
You can get to the main menu by selecting the “Back” button
repeatedly to back all the way out of the currently running component.
- languagechooser
Shows a list of languages and language variants. The installer will
display messages in the chosen language, unless the translation for
that language is not complete. When a translation is not complete,
English messages are shown.
- countrychooser
Shows a list of countries. The user may choose the country he lives
in.
- kbd-chooser
Shows a list of keyboards, from which the user chooses the model which
matches his own.
- hw-detect
Automatically detects most of the system's hardware, including network
cards, disk drives, and PCMCIA.
- cdrom-detect
Looks for and mounts a Debian installation CD.
- netcfg
Configures the computer's network connections so it can communicate
over the internet.
- iso-scan
Looks for ISO file systems, which may be on a CD-ROM or on the
hard drive.
- choose-mirror
Presents a list of Debian archive mirrors. The user may choose
the source of his installation packages.
- cdrom-checker
Checks integrity of a CD-ROM. This way the user may assure him/herself
that the installation CD-ROM was not corrupted.
- lowmem
Lowmem tries to detect systems with low memory and then does various
tricks to remove unnecessary parts of debian-installer
from the memory (at the
cost of some features).
- anna
Anna's Not Nearly APT. Installs packages which have been retrieved
from the chosen mirror or CD.
- partman
Allows the user to partition disks attached to the system, create file
systems on the selected partitions, and attach them to the
mountpoints. Included are also interesting features like a fully
automatic mode or LVM support. This is the preferred partitioning tool
in Debian.
- autopartkit
Automatically partitions an entire disk according to preset
user preferences.
- partitioner
Allows the user to partition disks attached to the system. A
partitioning program appropriate to your computer's architecture
is chosen.
- partconf
Displays a list of partitions, and creates file systems on
the selected partitions according to user instructions.
- lvmcfg
Helps the user with the configuration of the
LVM (Logical Volume Manager).
- mdcfg
Allows the user to setup Software RAID
(Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks). This Software RAID is usually
superior to the cheap IDE (pseudo hardware) RAID controllers found on
newer motherboards.
- base-installer
Installs the most basic set of packages which would allow
the computer to operate under Linux when rebooted.
- os-prober
Detects currently installed operating systems on the computer and
passes this information to the bootloader-installer, which may offer
you an ability to add discovered operating systems to the bootloader's
start menu. This way the user could easily choose at the boot time
which operating system to start.
- bootloader-installer
Installs a boot loader program on the hard disk, which is necessary
for the computer to start up using Linux without using a floppy or
CD-ROM. Many boot loaders allow the user to choose an alternate
operating system each time the computer boots.
- base-config
Provides dialogs for setting up the base system packages according
to user preferences. This is normally done after rebooting the
computer; it is the “first run” of the new Debian system.
- shell
Allows the user to execute a shell from the menu, or in the second
console.
- bugreporter
Provides a way for the user to record information on a floppy
disk
when trouble is encountered, in order to accurately report installer
software problems to Debian developers later.