Debian Installation Guide — Development version

This page contains the development version of the Installation Guide for the Debian Installer. This page is primairily targeted at writers and translators of the manual.

The official version of the Installation Guide for Etch can be found on the Etch release pages. This version is updated regularly if changes are made in the Guide that apply to the current official release of the installer.

The version of the manual available from this page also includes documentation of post-Etch changes to Debian Installer. This means that it reflects the daily builds of the installer. However, some changes may not yet be documented.

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Status of the Installation Guide

A large part of the Guide was copied from the old installation guide for Woody. Some parts still need to be updated and some parts should to be restructured and/or rewritten to improve readability.
The main parts that need to be updated are chapters 2 to 5.

The second concern is that the information for some architectures is outdated and/or not reviewed for Debian Installer. This is indicated by a warning at the beginning of the manual.

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Recent changes in the original English version

The table below lists the more important changes in the manual in reverse order.
Note: this table is only meant as a help to translators; there is no guarantee it is complete or up to date.

Date SVN commit Description
2007-05-07 r46722 Added translatable entities BTN-CONT, BTN-CANCEL and BTN-GOBACK.
2007-03-09 Added links to more detailed translation statistics by Jordà Polo for XML-based transaltions.
2007-02-18 r45239 New chapter in Random bits appendix documenting installs using PPPoE.
2007-01-22 r44411 Functionality added to allow translation of entities. See build/entities/l10n/README for further information.
2007-01-03 r43782 New chapter in Random Bits appendix documenting the graphical installer.

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The translation for the languages below is either very incomplete or out-of-date. For this reason only the version for Intel x86 is available.

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Translation statistics

The first table shows how much of the manual has been translated for languages that directly translate the XML files. The second table shows the statistics for languages using PO files for their translation.

XML-based translations

The column 'Files needing update' gives a rough indication of whether the translation is up to date. More detailed statistics – created by Jordà Polo – are also available.

Language % complete Translated files Untranslated files Files needing update Missing files
Catalan 100 153 0 8 0
Czech 100 153 0 6 0
German 100 153 0 5 0
Italian 100 153 0 4 0
Spanish 99 152 0 38 1
French 99 151 2 2 0
Portuguese (BR) 99 151 2 2 0
Basque 25 44 87 119 22
Dutch 20 42 111 10 0
Danish 0 3 121 113 29

PO-based translations

Use the links in the table for per language details.

RankPercentageLanguageCount
1099%Japanese 
 099%Korean 
 099%Portuguese (PT) 
 099%Russian 
 099%Swedish 
 099%Vietnamese 
 099%Chinese (simplified)7
2096%Finnish1
3095%Greek1
4084%Hungarian1
5061%Chinese (traditional)1
6008%Romanian1
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 000%Tagalog3
Total15

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This page is automatically generated as part of the build process for the manual and its translations.
Please mail faw@funlabs.org for more information.
Time of last build: Fri May 9 00:23:08 UTC 2008