Fwd: Debian Installer etch beta 1 released

[Robert Millan]

Does this mean we're out of time for porting d-i?  Maybe we'll have to stick
with FreeBSD installer for the etch release (it could be easily hacked to use
debootstrap, remove FreeBSD-specific portions, etc).

What do you think?

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 07:27:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the first beta
> release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch.
> 
> Improvements in this release of the installer include:
>    
>      * Debian testing (etch) is now installed by default, instead of
>        sarge, and features several months of development and updates.
>      * This new version of the installer uses and installs the 2.6.12
>        kernel, instead of the 2.6.8 kernel used in the sarge release.
>      * 2.6 is now the default kernel for i386 and sparc (and remains the
>        default kernel for powerpc, amd64, ia64 and hppa). Boot with
>        "install24" to install using the 2.4 kernel.
>      * The installer supports a rescue mode for recovering broken
>        systems. Boot with "rescue".
>      * An alpha release of a graphical version of the installer is
>        available for the i386, amd64, and powerpc architectures.
>      * Improved locale selection, timezone and clock setup, and
>        preseeding.
>      * Automatic laptop detection and installation of a laptop task.
>      * Secure apt is used to cryptographically verify downloaded
>        packages.
>      * Improved log file management and bug reporting.
>      * Automatically installs acpid if the hardware supports it.
>      * Added the following languages: Malagasy, Macedonian, Tagalog,
>        Belarusian, Esperanto, Wolof, Xhosa, Estonian and Kurdish
> 
> This release no longer supports the following:
> 
>      * sparc32: Dropped support for installations using 2.6 kernel.
>      * s390: This architecture is not supported by this installer
>        release. We hope to support it again in the next release.
> 
> Installation CDs, other media, and everything else you'll need are
> available from our web site, <http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer>
> 
> 
> For the Debian Installer team,
> Joey Hess



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Robert Millan