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Edamame

System Installation Utility for Drauger OS.

Formerly known as system-installer

edamame 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 edamame

edamame currently is known working only on Drauger OS, but is being adapted to work on other Debian-based OSs as well. edamame is designed NOT to be specific to Drauger OS. So testing on other distros is encouraged!

Notable features

  • 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)

Development

Interested in helping out with development? Great! Check out the notes on how to get started with development here.

Other Notes

edamame requires systemd

This drawback is in place for a number of reasons:

  • systemd-boot is easier and more reliable to install on UEFI than GRUB
  • systemd makes setting up everything from keyboard to language to time significantly easier
  • systemd is present on most Linux systems

edamame uses GRUB on BIOS, systemd-boot on UEFI

  • systemd-boot does not support BIOS
  • GRUB is a pain on UEFI

Max 40+ MB *.deb

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/edamame/settings.json.