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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has been replaced by a new componentized and more powerful installation system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 installation system uses a 2.4 series kernel by default. Installation using a 2.6 based kernel is also possible for SPARC. For more details on how to use this please consult the Installation Guide.
There are several issues with keyboard selection during installation.
The first issue is with USB keyboards by Sun as used on for example SunBlade systems. When installing using the default 2.4 kernel, these are incorrectly "recognized" by the installer as regular Sun keyboards. A workaround is documented in the Installation Guide (see link above, chapter "Using the Debian Installer").
The second issue is kernel related. Kernels in the 2.6 series use a different input layer that makes all keyboards look like "normal" PC keyboards. This means that if you boot the installer with a 2.4 kernel and configure it for a Sun or USB keyboard and later (in expert mode) select a 2.6 kernel for the new system, you will very likely end up with a non-working keyboard after reboot.
Because of display problems on some systems, framebuffer support is disabled by default for SPARC. This can result in ugly display on systems that do properly support the framebuffer, like those with ATI graphical cards. If you see display problems in the installer, you can try booting the installer with parameter debian-installer/framebuffer=true.
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'), SPARC
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