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/> > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
