At last: Debian-Installer release candidate 1
August 7th, 2004
The Debian-Installer team announces the first release candidate of the
Debian sarge installer. Notable improvements in this release 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.
- 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.
