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Old 02-03-2004, 06:06 AM   #1
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A new installer? For real?

I've heard that the traditional Debian installer has been worked over for the latest stable or will be for the next stable release - people aren't getting their stories straight. Debian.org mentions a new installer but is not very specific, to say the least. Is there a new installer? If so, what's changed?
 
Old 02-03-2004, 09:48 AM   #2
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Perhaps the following articles may shed some light hmmm...

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

http://articles.linmagau.org/modules...tid=455&page=1
 
Old 02-03-2004, 10:22 AM   #3
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The new installer does a lot more (meaning more than none) hardware auto-detection. I tried a beta of it and liked it quite a bit.
 
Old 02-03-2004, 04:50 PM   #4
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Thanks! I think I'll be giving it a shot soon too. Everytime I've tried to install pure Debian before all I got was an X server crash, and I finally tracked it down to the hardware detection because all the Debian-based sistros that use a different hardware detection program installed fine. Unfortunately, almost every Debian-based distro is also costly, so I always wanted to get Debian itself to work.
 
Old 02-04-2004, 10:02 PM   #5
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Quote:
Originally posted by Mistshadow
Thanks! I think I'll be giving it a shot soon too. Everytime I've tried to install pure Debian before all I got was an X server crash, and I finally tracked it down to the hardware detection because all the Debian-based sistros that use a different hardware detection program installed fine. Unfortunately, almost every Debian-based distro is also costly, so I always wanted to get Debian itself to work.
This is almost incoherent.
 
Old 02-04-2004, 10:24 PM   #6
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Not to an intelligent person.

Welcome to my ignore list.
Last edited by Mistshadow; 02-04-2004 at 10:26 PM.
 
Old 02-05-2004, 02:07 AM   #7
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sickboy: you're wellcome on mine, too.
 
  


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