Sorry for top post. On a Gateway Sempron (32 bit) laptop ...
Where's dhcp? Laptop has builtin ethernet (Marvell Tech. 88E8036) which etch handles well. I see it also has BCM4318 802.11g wifi (which I don't use). No network, but otherwise works fine. :-) Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Debian Live Lenny Beta1 > ======================= > > The Debian Live team[0] is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian > Lenny's Live images. > > Although we missed releasing images for Etch along with the installer > images, we are now prepared to release live images within the regular > Lenny release process. This is the first official release of Debian Live > and the whole team has been working hard during the past 2.5 years[1] to > make Debian's own[2] live systems become a reality. > > Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the > live systems, so please try them out. The images are available at: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_live_beta1/ > > Please also have a look at the known issues listed below. > > Main features > ============= > > 100% Debian > - ------------ > > The build process of Debian Live basically consists of creating a Debian > chroot, installing one or more kernels along with live-initramfs[3] (a > set of hooks into initramfs-tools for handling booting from read-only > media) and generating a bootable image from that. > > This process is handled by live-helper[4], a collection of shell scripts > that allow us to automate and customize this process. Considerable > care[5] is taken to ensure that the resulting live system is not tainted > by the host system and that installed packages are not modified more > than absolutely necessary. > > This ensures that Debian Live really *is* Debian, and not "just another" > a Debian-based live system. > > Flavours > - -------- > > Although live-helper is a toolkit to produce your very own live systems > with only a few steps, we also provide prebuilt images that are meant to > be used as reference systems for end-users. Currently, this consists of > the three major desktop environments (GNOME, KDE and Xfce), as well as a > small 'standard' image without a graphical environment. > > For the desktop environments, package selection is performed by > 'tasksel' with the respective desktop task, whilst the 'standard' image > contains only packages of "Priority: standard" or greater, > notwithstanding a handful of live-specific packages (console-common, > eject, file, kbd, live-initramfs, locales, sudo and vim-tiny). > > Image types > - ----------- > > Debian Live offers prebuilt images for CD/DVD discs, USB sticks (or any > HD-media-like device), tarballs (for PXE netboot) as well as a bare > squashfs image to boot from the web[6] directly. > > Live Magic > - ---------- > > Live Magic[7] is an GUI frontend around the live-helper scripts, > offering a subset of the features of live-helper in an easy-to-use > graphical user interface. > > live-magic 1.0 was recently uploaded to sid and is the recommended > version. It currently supports 7 languages. > > Live Installer > - -------------- > > Live Installer[8] is a special udeb for the Debian Installer that > (optionally) replaces a part of d-i in order to install the system from > the live image instead of to bootstrapping it from .deb packages. This > way, a live system can be easily installed to the harddisk, ensuring > that the look and feel of the installation (including preseeding) works > the same as the regular installer process. > > Unfortunately, live-installer does still have a few minor bugs left and > is thus not included in our builds yet; we hope to be able to include it > in the next beta. > > Known issues in this release > ============================ > > * The prebuilt images for gnome-desktop and kde-desktop are a bit too > big to fit on a CD. Although the automatic installation of > Recommends was disabled to build the images, they are still too big. > This will need further tweaking as they are supposed to fit with the > next beta. > > * The rescue flavour, containing system rescue and forensic related > packages, is missing in this beta release. > > * There will be a DVD image with the next beta that includes all three > desktop environments so that you can choose at boot time which > system you would like to start. > > * Due to time constraints, the prebuilt images for Beta1 are only > covering i386 and amd64; with the next beta, powerpc and sparc will > follow (if you wish to test these architectures earlier, please > build them yourself). > > * The new desktop artwork is not yet included. > > * The syslinux menu is still the old, prompt-based one. A freshly made > new syslinux vgamenu using the official lenny desktop artwork is on > the way (the same as d-i media will use in Lenny). > > * No live-installer included yet (if you wish to test live-installer > earlier, please build it yourself). > > * No win32-loader included yet. > > * Sid packages used - At the time of building the live images, both > live-helper 1.0.0-1 and live-initramfs 1.139.1-1 from sid were used. > Since the latter has not yet migrated to testing, it was included > manually as a local package. This is undesirable, as the release is > supposed to be self-contained - however, it is just a convenient > workaround as both were granted freeze exception and will migrate > soon. > > Plans for next Beta release > =========================== > > We are looking forward to upload Beta2 in about two weeks from now > (maybefollowed by a third beta) with one final RC after that which > should be identical to the final release. > > Some more details about the open things we would like to address in > Beta2 and later can be found at the wiki page[9]. > > The Debian Live team is still looking for more contributors for new > features (post-lenny, though) as well as documentation writers for the > manual (always). If you care about live systems, please join and help[10]! > > Thanks > ====== > > Last but not least, our thanks goes to everyone who has contributed[11] > and to all maintainers that have kindly fixed live-specific bugs in > their packages. > > References > ========== > > [0] http://alioth.debian.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=30929 > > [1] http://git.debian.net/?p=live-helper.git;a=blob;f=docs/NEWS > > [2] http://blog.daniel-baumann.ch/2006/02/14#20060214_debian-live-initiative > > [3] http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-initramfs > > [4] http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-helper > > [5] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Guidelines > > [6] > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-live-devel/2007-September/002133.html > > [7] http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-magic > > [8] http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-installer > > [9] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Lenny/Todo#Beta2 > > [10] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Contribute > > [11] http://git.debian.net/?p=live-helper.git;a=blob;f=docs/CREDITS > http://git.debian.net/?p=live-initramfs.git;a=blob;f=docs/CREDITS > > Regards, > Daniel > > - -- > Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ > > > > -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. 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