Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

[Joris Huizer <jorishuizer@planet.nl>]

Patrick Donker wrote:
> matt zagrabelny wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 15:05, Patrick Donker wrote:
> >
> > > I hear alot of fuzz about 'the new installer'...
> > > Whats so special about it?
> >
> >
> > quoting joey hess:
> >
> > The Debian-Installer team announces the first release candidate of the
> > Debian sarge installer. Significant improvements in this release of the
> > installer include:
> >
> >  - Support for the s390 architecture, completing the full set of 11    
> > released Debian architectures.
>
>
> <snip>
>
> Ok, allot of extra stuff, but nothing 'new' as in features, extra 
> functionality or graphics...right?

The installer is being improved (in design and in easiness as I read on 
this list, I don't have a spare partition to try myself)

new features, etc would be in new (sarge) packages that'll be the next 
stable release and/or the new 2.6 kernel

HTH,

Joris