[Fsf-kerala] Fwd: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer

[Praveen A]

Hi,

I have created a screencast of the installation, with my comments on
the steps as well as the current state of affairs in the Free Software
community.

Its a bit long but you can skip 3 and 4 if you are only curious about
the installation.

Installer Options http://blip.tv/file/1722584/
Installation part1 http://gnupravi.blip.tv/file/1722620/
installation part 2 http://blip.tv/file/1725047
installation part 3 http://gnupravi.blip.tv/file/1725153/
installation part 4 http://blip.tv/file/1725300
installation part 5 http://blip.tv/file/1725358

You can add your comments in the video. Spread the word about lenny !!

It is scheduled to be out by the weekend on Feb 14.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org>
Date: 2009/1/31
Subject: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer
To: debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org
Cc: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot at lists.debian.org>


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The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second release
candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny.

Improvements in this release of the installer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 * Updated Linux kernel (2.6.26-13) and external modules (2.6.26-5);
 * Available modules for PATA devices on CD-ROM images (partly fixes
  installation problems with Marvell disk controllers, some problems
  still remains and are documented in the errata[2]);
 * Improved brltty device support;
 * Support firmware loading from usb devices in Sparc;
 * Improved support for encrypted partitions in rescue mode;
 * Fixed s390 installer on 3215 consoles;
 * Fixed serial console  issues on Sparc;
 * Fixed multi-arch CD: it no longer boots directly to the amd64
  installer;
 * Updated installation guide with a re-added Spanish translation;
 * Fallback languages other than English are now properly used when
  the translation is incomplete.
 * Fixed Danish translations in several seldomly used modules
 * Fixed calculation of partition sizes in automatic LVM partitioning

Behavioral changes in this release
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 * Users can now return back to the boot menu from the boot help
  screens;
 * The tools/ directory on CD images is no longer provided. It used to
  include tools such as loadlin, unzip, gzip which are nearly no
  longer used and documented in the installation guide;

Known issues in this release
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 * Rescue mode should be used with great care when software RAID
  arrays were in use on the system to rescue. The rescue mode scripts
  automatically assemble arrays, which could lead to data corruption
  in the presence of invalid or obsolete RAID superblocks.

See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues.

We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer,
so please try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything you else
you will need are available at our web site[2].

The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this
release.

References
~~~~~~~~~

1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team
2. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata.html
3. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer

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