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Re: The success of an Etch



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Mikael Backman wrote:
> sön 2007-02-18 klockan 12:48 -0500 skrev Kevin Mark:
>> On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:14:08AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>>> Last night I downloaded the latest daily snapshot of the Etch installer
>>> for i386 from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and chose
>>> the net-install image.  Upon booting I pressed F1 for more options and
>>> then one of the others (F3?) for boot options and found that
>>> "installgui" would start the GUI installer.
>> One of the use cases for the gui installer aka g-i was the need to
>> address installation in certain non-english languages. Now folks who
>> speak some popular indic languages can install Debian in their native
>> language. woot!  And some of the installer question were removed and
>> made into defaults so that users didn't need to answer un-needed
>> question. As you found out, a vast imporvment was made to the process
>> when compared to boot-floppies :-) As for the progress bar, I'm sure a
>> wishlist bug might help there.
> 
> Is there any way to get this CD-netinstaller onto a DVD? My computer
> boots DVDs only...
> 
> 
What happens if you try to burn the image onto a DVD?  Other than the
obvious waste of space (cd wastes space too)?


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