Excelent work!!! 2012/5/13 Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>
> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha > release of the installer for Debian Wheezy. > > > Improvements in this release of the installer > ============================================= > > Network configuration > --------------------- > * Add WPA support to installer (#327309). > * Improvements in link detection and DHCP configuration, which > should improve reliability for systems with flaky network > cards (#496647, #414117, #606515). > * Release DHCP lease at the end of the install, to work around > problems with non-RFC compliant DHCP servers (#610553). > * The requirements for hostnames have been clarified, and the > parser tightened up to avoid letting through some really > dodgy names (#399071). > * Added Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) support. > > Linux Specific > -------------- > * Kernel version has been updated to 3.2.16. > * Default filesystem changed to ext4. > * Allow Btrfs /boot partition (GRUB 2 and LILO). > * Add support for Network Block Devices (NBD). > > kFreeBSD Specific > ----------------- > * Kernel updated to version 8.3. > * Option to use new 9.0 kernel during install. > * Detect LVM devices. > > Operating system probing > ------------------------ > * Add detection for Windows 8, support for BSD systems, MeeGo, > Linux From Scratch and Haiku on BeFS partitions. > * Improve Windows and MS-DOS detection. > * Fix Gentoo detection on OS probing. > > Win32-loader > ------------ > * Add PXE functionality (#607417). > > USB stick installs > ------------------ > * Add choice of ISO image to use when multiple images are found > on the installation medium (#564441). This includes a full > rewrite of the state machine in the iso-scan component. This > work was contributed by Frans Pop and Frédéric Boiteux. > > Translations > ------------ > * New language supported: Uyghur. > > > Behavioral changes in this release > ================================== > > * Make sure to put "hda" into the CoLo config file instead > of "sda" since CoLo only knows about the former (#614839). > * Remove 5 second sleeps when debootstrap finds additional > required dependencies. d-i just got that much faster. > * Use SHA checksums. > * Re-enable ZFS on kfreebsd-i386. > * Allow stripped ZFS for root filesystem. > * Mirror and RAID-Z support on ZFS filesystems. > * Redesign ZFS pool management, new features include: > - Support for pools with multiple physical devices. > - Support for multiple filesystems within a ZFS pool. > - Support for legacy filesystems using ZFS volumes (ZVOL). > - Arbitrary names for ZFS pools, filesystems and ZVOLs. > * Switch espeakup language around language selection (#630477). > > > Hardware support changes > ======================== > > * Support AMD CPU family 20 (LP: #676838). > * Add support for: > - Buffalo Linkstation LiveV3 (LS-CHL) (#612167). > - Buffalo Linkstation Mini (LS-WSGL). > - Toshiba AC100. > - MX53 LOCO board. > - OMAP4 Pandora. > - armhf architecture. > - Genesi Efika MX nettops and smarttops (#612376). > * Blacklist snd-aoa to allow snd-powermac to work. > * Install mmc-modules if no disk is found, since some devices > may not have hard drives, but SD slots instead (#593108). > * Increase the number of attempts to detect new disk devices on > some SCSI subsystems with long driver/disk initialization > time (#611314). > * Include ahci module for the QNAP TS-419P+ (#613497). > * Add niu network driver for sparc, needed by T2+ Sparc > systems (#608516). > * Recognize /dev/duart* as a serial console. > > > Known issues in this release > ============================ > > * The prompt when installing GRUB mentions other operating systems > (like Windows), but only Debian is actually offered after install > (#666750). > * GRUB installation fails with RAID+LVM (#662086). > * Linux kernel installation fails on some x86 processors (686 without > PAE) (#672611). > * Mirror list might be slightly outdated; choose-mirror will be > updated in a later release. > * Missing fonts for Burmese, Tibetan, Dzongkha and Sinhala > languages (#672635). > > See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues. > > > Not yet known issues in this release > ==================================== > > We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, > so please try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything else you > will need are available at our web site[3]. > > > Thanks > ====== > > The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this > release. > > > 1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team > 2. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata > 3. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer > > -- > Cyril Brulebois > on behalf of the Debian Installer Team > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAk+vvV8ACgkQeGfVPHR5Nd0JAACdH6P3UVXY7yiQxSGnLAvy9sIc > 70QAoIR9W4Lxs8GgHv/htFFjg9mswDV6 > =wwl0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- *Luis Eduardo Verenzuela 04241531511*
