Hello, On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 02:48:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Hmm, shouldn't sarge be on head, not a branch? Anyway, after getting it > checked out I had a read through. > > - the speakup images have just been reorganised now, so there are now > two driver disk images, one for CD and one for network installs > - the path to the installation manual on the mirrors has changed from > /dists/sarge/main/disks-i386/current/doc/install.txt to > /dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/<ll>/index.html > (With <ll> being en or whatever) > - I think it would be best to avoid the use of the term "componentized" > given what progeny is doing with/to that term. s/componentized/modular/. > - 4.3. says that the recommended upgrade method is dselect with apt, > while 4.4 talks about upgrading with aptitude. > > If you're looking for more new features to mention, a few in d-i > include: > > - automatic detection of hardware > - support for automated installations by debconf database preseeding > - grub as the default bootloader (i386) > - automatic detection of other operating systems installed on your > computer, and addition of these to the boot menu (i386, powerpc) > - support for resizing fat and vfat filesystems (but not ntfs) (i386) > - DVD images of debian > - localised to xxx languages (see our release announcments for numbers; > I forget how many languages the boot floppies were localised to) Also, worth of mentioning is : - support for RAID and LVM in the installer This one is a huge advance from boot-floppies and lots of people were asking for this. -- ++----------------------------------------------------------------------++ || André Luís Lopes andrelop@debian.org || || http://people.debian.org/~andrelop || || Debian-BR Project http://www.debian-br.org || || Public GPG KeyID 9D1B82F6 ||
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