Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 03:18:29PM -0500, 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?
> >
>
Its also much easier to use then the woody one, by default uses simple
options so it can be used by linux newbies without holding a book in
the other hand and IIRC it is modular so it will be much easier to
extend when the time comes.
> 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.
>
> - Added support for more subarches for arm (riscpc, riscstation),
> m68k (bvme6000, mvme147, mvme16x), mipsel (cobalt) and powerpc
> (oldworld).
>
> - Native port to the amd64 architecture. Note that amd64 packages are
> not
> yet available in the Debian archive; packages and images are
> available
> from the Debian amd64 project. <http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/>
>
> - CD images finally work for sparc64.
>
> - Full size CD images are available as part of the release for the
> first
> time. Note that this is not an official release of Debian sarge, just
> a
> Debian-Installer beta release.
>
> - Supports installing using the 2.6 kernel on powerpc.
>
> - Installing with the 2.6 kernel on i386 is no longer considered
> experimental as it was in previous betas, but is still not the
> default.
>
> - Support for firewire CD drives and firewire ethernet.
>
> - Added and improved support for a wide variety of other hardware.
>
> - Improved documentation.
>
> - Numerous bug fixes and improvements -- far too many to list here.
>
> - Translated into 40 languages (36 fully complete), including new
> translations to Croatian and Farsi.
>
> - The latest and greatest versions of everything from Debian's testing
> distribution, which is close to official release itself.
>
> We're confident that this is our best release ever, so give it a try,
> install Debian today, and don't forget to file an installation report so
> we
> can continue to make the installer even better.
>
> Links to bootable images and documentation are on our web site.
> <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/>
>
>
>
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