Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:49:33PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote:
> It works for about 95% of our users based on installation reports. I
> expect that 90% of our users don't bother to file reports -- I've not
> seen any from you.
I posted one to debian-boot, which no one answered.
> Anyway, no, hardware autodetection is not the only new feature compared
> to the boot floppies. Off the top of my head a few other user-visible
> features:
>
> - automatic disk partitioning
Not if you want to resize your NTFS partition. I had to use a
shareware product. GNU ntfstools are not included.
> - support for XFS, reiserfs, jfs
Irrelevant to me personally, but granted.
> - booting from USB keychain
Didn't know that.
> - wireless networking
Not with my card.
> - 2.6 kernel
Not on my hardware. Freeze.
> - grub as the boot loader
Not for me -- I use LILO.
> - automatic detection of other OSes (linux, windows, etc) and
> addition of working boot entires for these in the grub menu
Not in my case.
I did say "basically" the same as boot-floppies. None of the above
strikes me as "basic". (I did say "basically", right? I don't have
a copy of my own post to hand.)
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