On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:22:22AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > > - The debian-installer (d-i) is in what I would call almost a releasable > > > state, but that's just my opinion. See debian-boot for information. > > > > Without it being on the CDs, it's far from a releaseable state... > > Good point. I still don't have a complete understanding of what's involved > to do that which is probably why I think it's fairly easy [1] and don't > believe that would take too long. > > There are bootable CD images available for download [2]. I have > successfully used them for an install.
There's bootability only on i386 right now, AFAIR, and even that was worthless when I last tried it two weeks ago -- the CD booted fine, and had all the packages, but I couldn't tell the installer to actually use the file:/cdrom URL for packages, it insisted on network (regardless of which image I selected). > If this is an issue, then it's worth noting that > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200207/msg01479.html > says: "If you don't have a functioning installer by release, then sure, > you'll release, but you won't be installable when you do." This means > that, like with Woody (afaict), Sarge may be released without a functional > installer for some of the "supported" architectures. Yes but I'm sure nobody considers a regression from ~ 11 working install procedures to ~ 0 :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
