This manual was initially created for the debian-installer in Debian Sarge, originally based on the Woody installation manual for boot-floppies, which was based on earlier Debian installation manuals, and on the Progeny distribution manual which was released under GPL in 2003.

Isemli-a yettwaru s DocBook XML. Imasalen n tuffɣa ttwasirwen-d sɣur wahilen yemgaraden s useqdec n yikemmusen docbook-xml d docbook-xsl.

In order to increase the maintainability of this document, we use a number of XML features, such as entities and profiling attributes. These play a role akin to variables and conditionals in programming languages. The XML source to this document contains information for each different architecture — profiling attributes are used to isolate certain bits of text as architecture-specific.