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New Debian Installer Coming Soon

Posted by michael on from the missing-link dept.

gnuman99 writes "Debian just released the 4th beta of the new debian-installer, this time for 9 architectures. Some of the improvements include experimental support for the 2.6 kernel, on i386 only. The 2.4 kernel remains the default and recommended kernel for most hardware. Detection of existing operating systems. The following operating systems can be detected and will be added to the boot menu of the installed system: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, GNU Hurd, DOS. Note that by experimental support for 2.6.x kernel simply means that it is experimental in the installer, NOT the actual OS. Debian supported 2.6.x in the Sarge/Sid before 2.6.x was even officially released."

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  1. Re:Hmm.. by sinikal · · Score: 5, Funny

    have you tried "emerge debian-installer"? can't seem to get it to work on mine..

  2. Geez by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's wrong with:

    tar xvfz package
    cd package
    configure
    make
    make install
    ldconfig

    Are users getting lazy

    1. Re:Geez by mattjb0010 · · Score: 3, Funny

      What's wrong with:

      tar xvfz package
      cd package
      configure
      make
      make install
      ldconfig

      You forgot the "./" at the front of "./configure", because like any good Unix user you don't have "." in your path. Then it should work for you.

    2. Re:Geez by Amoeba · · Score: 4, Funny
      What's wrong with:

      tar xvfz package
      cd package
      configure
      make
      make install
      ldconfig

      You forgot the "./" at the front of "./configure", because like any good Unix user you don't have "." in your path. Then it should work for you.

      Then again, it appears he is running as root all the time. Must be a Windows convert.

      *blink*

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  3. great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's good to see my state of the art hardware will be detected along with my DOS and hurd installations... now if only we can get nvidia to release drivers for DOS and the hurd, my audigy and RAID setup... those old DOS games without the speed limiters will trully fly on a 3gighz pentium... they'll have to put epilepsy warnings on them though...

    On a side note, can anyone tell me why debian is still i386 compiled rather than i586? I heard one argument saying that although it was i386 they were optimized internally for the higher processors. Not trolling deb, just interested. Can any gurus give us a definitive answer?

    1. Re:great! by Amoeba · · Score: 3, Funny
      On a side note, can anyone tell me why debian is still i386 compiled rather than i586? I heard one argument saying that although it was i386 they were optimized internally for the higher processors. Not trolling deb, just interested. Can any gurus give us a definitive answer?

      Because it's not only the software packages that are 2 years behind in the stable release, it's the hardware too!

      (This was meant to be funny ha-ha... but dammit it might even be true. *sigh* If I could come up with a funny pun about "definitive answer" and the number differences I'd be rolling in karma. Some days I don't know why I even bother to ever post.)

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  4. The biggest problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    with Debian is that the people who use it are way too nice. Brrr, that kind of thing just gives me the creeps.

    1. Re:The biggest problem by Hrothgar+The+Great · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't meet me then. I use it and I tend to be more "drunken asshole" than nice.

  5. Re:Hmm.. by mattjb0010 · · Score: 2, Funny

    have you tried "emerge debian-installer"? can't seem to get it to work on mine..

    Keep waiting...

  6. Re:The debian installer is now pretty damn good by Crazy+Eight · · Score: 3, Funny

    I put it to use recently as well and also give it props. It's still text based but more streamlined. If you just want to get to a boot off the disk and a login prompt you don't have to waste a lot of time. IIRC, the design allows for graphical front ends too for those who prefer them, but why miss out on that ncurses TAB TAB ENTER speed and rhythmn? It's just like playing Defender...

  7. Re:The debian installer is now pretty damn good by Liselle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, this is rich. Here I am, trying to get Debian installed on an old P3-800 machine. I'm about to strangle the installer with my bare hands, so I decide to take a break and see what's on /. this morning. +5 Informative for the article! Since this is a throwaway machine, I will be a guinea pig for them. My day is not entirely shot after all. ;)

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  8. Re:The debian installer is now pretty damn good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe you can answer a question: The article says "New Debian installer coming soon"... is this soon as most people understand it, or Debian soon... meaning around 2009 with the wind behind them.

  9. but why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Nothing in Linux needs to change- it was all written by God Himself, and is thus perfect as-is.

    It's the world that needs to change, not Linux.

    1. Re:but why? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 2, Funny

      You goofed. The numbers should start with 0.

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  10. Re:The debian installer is now pretty damn good by back_pages · · Score: 3, Funny
    I found a back button on the Debian installer, that motherfucker.

    Fix Debian Installation Mistakes