At Debconf Joey Hess and I have integrated support for the graphical installer into the main build system for d-i. For now the support is for i386 only, but amd64 [1] and powerpc will follow very soon.
This means that the daily built images [2] of the installer now include an option to boot the graphical (gtk/directfb based) installer as well as the familiar newt based installer. The following types of images support graphical installation: - businesscard CD - netinst CD - hd-media - gtk-miniiso (mini CD image; install is comparable to netboot installs) To boot the graphical version of the installer, type 'installgui' or 'expertgui' at the boot prompt. By default you will get the newt frontend. Thanks to everyone who has helped us with the udeb shlibs/dependency transition which has made the integration possible. Cheers, Frans Pop [1] Images for amd64 will only actually be available when we can resume daily builds for them; these are currently down as a result of the archive integration. [2] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Note: you need the _daily built_ images, not the Etch Beta2 ones
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