System Installation Utility for Drauger OS.
system-installer aims to provide a fast, modular method of installing a Debian-based operating system. As of now, it is not advised for use on systems that Linux new-comers will frequent, due to it's reliance upon gparted and the users understanding of how partitioning works.
Click here to view the current list of known bugs
Click here to view the list of planned features
Click here for notes on hacking on system-installer
system-installer currently is known working only on Drauger OS, but is being adapted to work on other Debian-based OSs as well. system-installer is designed NOT to be specific to Drauger OS. So testing on other distros is encouraged!
- Add PPAs inside the installer, post installation
- Quick-install config file support
- One of the fastest installation utilities in Linux today (1-to-2.5 minutes (ish)) on a quad-core CPU with 4 GB of RAM and decent, reliable internet)
Interested in helping out with development? Great! Check out the notes on how to get started with development here.
This drawback is in place for a number of reasons:
systemd-bootis easier and more reliable to install on UEFI than GRUBsystemdmakes setting up everything from keyboard to language to time significantly easiersystemdis present on most Linux systems
systemd-bootdoes not support BIOSGRUBis a pain on UEFI
The *.deb is currently +40 MB because it packs a kernel to install inside the *.deb file.
This can be circumvented by passing the --pool flag to build.sh, and results in a *.deb with no kernel archive. To use this DEB, please be sure to have a folder in your ISO storing all necessary packages (kernel and systemd-boot-manager) and have that folder defined in etc/system-installer/settings.json.
