Debian-Installer beta 3 released
March 15th, 2004
The Debian-Installer team is proud to announce the third and final beta
release of the Debian sarge installer. New features in this release include:
- new easy to use partitioner that supports automatic
partitioning and LVM
- grub as the default boot loader on i386
- wireless networking support
- 2.4.25 kernel, with SATA support and security fixes
- support for the XFS filesystem
- support for these architectures: i386, ia64, sparc, m68k (mac),
mips, alpha
- fully translated to 25 languages
- a boot logo (by Mark Riedesel)
- a draft
installation manual
This release fixes all of the posted
errata in beta 2 of the
Debian-Installer, and many other bugs besides. We anticipate that most
users will find it a great improvement from past betas. Please send us a
report of how your installation goes, so we can strive to make it even
better.
How to try out the beta:
- Download one of the CDs or other images from the
d-i website.
- Read the INSTALLATION HOWTO
and errata before
installing.
- File an install report as a bug against the pseudo-package
'installation-reports' in the Debian bug tracking system. If your
installation was successful, there will be a template for install
reports in /root/install-report.template. This template is also
available on
the web. Please use this template when filling installation
reports.
We appreciate all the testing and feedback we've received for past versions
of the installer, and hope this one is the best one yet!
