Hi, On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:50:54AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > After watching the Nth person bitch on IRC that they downloaded the ia64 > image when they meant to download the amd64 image, I have a constructive > suggestion for improving matters. > > Changing the architecture name would be very disruptive, so that's out. > > But we could easily change this: > > # netinst CD image (generally 135-175 MB) > [alpha][amd64][arm][armel][hppa][i386][ia64][mips][mipsel][powerpc][sparc] > > to this: > # netinst CD image (generally 135-175 MB) > [x86 32-bit][x86 64-bit][PowerPC][ARM (new ABI)][ARM (old ABI)][DEC Alpha][HP > PA-RISC][Itanium][MIPS][Little Endian MIPS][SPARC]
Seconded, thanks for the suggestion. That would look like : http://teubr.eu.org/~spaillar/debian/webwml/english/releases/lenny/debian-installer/index.en.html Notice the 0 that is specific to multi-arch. I don't understand yet. > (I realise this opens us to all kinds of bikeshedding around the exact > wording, the ordering and so on. My suggestion is that someone just make > a decision and stick to it, because almost anything would be better than > the alphabetical arch-name list we currently have). IMHO, it doesn't need to be sorted. It should instead do the same as http://get.debian.net/ and display the arch form the user first. If this need any order, that should be sorted by inst score from popcon: http://popcon.debian.org/ -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
