Carl Fink wrote:
The only real difference from the older boot-floppies is autodetection of hardware, which almost works some of the time.
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.
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 - support for XFS, reiserfs, jfs - booting from USB keychain - wireless networking - 2.6 kernel - grub as the boot loader - automatic detection of other OSes (linux, windows, etc) and addition of working boot entires for these in the grub menu - LVM support - software RAID support - support for firewire CD and ethernet - supports installing from pcmcia CD drives - support for RTL languages; translated to Arabic &etc - remote-controlled installation over ssh (experimental except on s390) - just 12 keypresses for a basic debian install
Now, this is what I call cool features :) thanks!
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