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Installing with the Debian-Installer

For official Debian 5.0.2 installation media and information, see the lenny page.

If you'd like something newer to help us test a future release of the installer, or because of hardware problems or other issues, try one of these daily built images which contain the latest available version of installer components.

netinst (generally 135-175 MB) and businesscard (generally 20-50 MB) CD images
[alpha][amd64][armel][hppa][i386][ia64][mips][mipsel][powerpc][sparc]
netinst and businesscard CD images (via jigdo)
[alpha][amd64][armel][hppa][i386][ia64][mips][mipsel][powerpc][sparc]
multi-arch CD images
[iso images] [jigdo files]
other images (netboot, usb stick, floppy, etc)
[alpha] [amd64] [armel] [hppa] [i386] [ia64] [mips] [mipsel] [powerpc] [sparc]

If any of the hardware in your system requires firmware to be loaded with the device driver, you can use one of the tarballs of common firmware packages. Instructions how to use the tarballs and general information about loading firmware during an installation can be found in the Installation Guide (see Documentation below).

Notes

Before you download the daily built images, we suggest you check for known issues.
An architecture can be (temporarily) omitted from the overview of daily built images if daily builds are not (reliably) available.
For CD and DVD images, an MD5SUMS file is available in the same directory as the images.
For downloading full CD and DVD images the use of bittorrent or jigdo is recommended.
For the less common architectures only a limited number of images from the CD and DVD sets is available as ISO file or via bittorrent. The full sets are only available via jigdo.
The multi-arch CD images support i386/amd64/powerpc and alpha/hppa/ia64; the installation is similar to installing from a single architecture netinst image.
The multi-arch DVD image supports i386/amd64; the installation is similar to installing from a single architecture full CD image; the DVD also includes the source for all included packages.

After using the Debian-Installer, please send us an installation report, even if there weren't any problems.

Documentation

If you read only one document before installing, read our Installation Howto, a quick walkthrough of the installation process. Other useful documentation includes:

Installation Guide: development version
detailed installation instructions
Debian-Installer FAQ and Debian-CD FAQ
common questions and answers
Debian-Installer Wiki
community maintained documentation

Contacting us

The debian-boot mailing list is the main forum for discussion and work on Debian-Installer.

We also have an IRC channel, #debian-boot on irc.debian.org. This channel is used mainly for development, but occasionally for support. If you do not receive a response, try the mailing list instead.