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The old Debian GNU/Linux installation system called boot-floppies
has been replaced by a new componentized and more powerful installation system
called debian-installer.
The installer offers a variety of installation methods. Which methods are available to install your system depends on your architecture.
If you are making a new installation of Debian, you should read the Installation Guide, which is available on the Official CD at:
/doc/install/manual/language/index.html
or on the Internet from the sarge release
pages. You may also want to check the errata
for debian-installer.
The new installer can only be used to install on alpha systems which support
the SRM console. Be sure to switch your system to SRM before starting the
installation. If your machine supports only the AlphaBIOS/ARC console, you can
still install sarge using a (minimal) woody installation and a subsequent
upgrade. For more information about the different consoles please read the
references on the Debian
alpha port web pages.
For technical reasons the popularity-contest package is no longer
installed by default for new sarge installations. This will probably be
corrected in future releases.
popularity-contest provides the Debian project with valuable
information on which packages in the distribution are actually used. This
information is used mainly to decide the order in which packages are included
on installation CD-ROMs, but is also often consulted by Debian developers in
deciding whether or not to adopt a package that no longer has a maintainer.
Information from popularity-contest is processed anonymously. We
would appreciate it if you install the package and allow it to participate in
the official survey; you will thereby help improve Debian.
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Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (`sarge'), Alpha
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