# Debian Installer internals

Frans Pop

The Debian Installer is sometimes described as a mini Linux distribution which gives an indication of its complexity. This document gives an introduction to the inner workings of the installer when it is running, its components (udebs) and its build system.

2006 2008 2010 Frans Pop fjp@debian.org

This document is free; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

## Introduction

This document is intended to make Debian Installer more accessible to new developers and as a central location to document technical information. If you have any suggestions to improve this document, please mail them to the debian-boot list.

For any kind of work on Debian Installer, you should check out the d-i SVN repository on alioth:

    $ svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk

Subscription to the debian-boot list is recommended. To request commit access to the repository, please send a mail to that list.

Additional development oriented documentation can be found on the Debian Installer Wiki, in the SVN repository under `installer/doc/devel` or in `README` files included with the source for various components.

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