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02-03-2004, 07:06 AM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: several, mostly SuSE, Slack & RH 9
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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?  |
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02-03-2004, 10:48 AM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: /dev/null
Distribution: Debian Sid, Mepis, Slackware 9.1
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02-03-2004, 11:22 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Houston, TX, USA
Distribution: Debian
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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.
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02-03-2004, 05:50 PM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: several, mostly SuSE, Slack & RH 9
Posts: 25
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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.
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02-04-2004, 11:02 PM
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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Arch
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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.
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02-04-2004, 11:24 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: several, mostly SuSE, Slack & RH 9
Posts: 25
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Not to an intelligent person.
Welcome to my ignore list.
Last edited by Mistshadow; 02-04-2004 at 11:26 PM.
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02-05-2004, 03:07 AM
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Bucharest,RO
Distribution: debian etch, sarge and sid
Posts: 407
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sickboy: you're wellcome on mine, too.
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