installer release

2008-11-13 Thread Marshall
hi,
I was just on distrowatch and I want to know if the
installer release is a barebone and a person can use
it to make a custom distro? I'm hoping thats what it's
for. I want a barebone base to add the apps I want for
my own desktop.
Hope i'm sending to the right eamil,,,
thanks
Marshall


  


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Re: installer release

2008-11-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
 I was just on distrowatch and I want to know if the
 installer release is a barebone and a person can use
 it to make a custom distro? 

Well, the installer is only the installer, and the main focus is the next
release, but Debian also offers lots of toolkit functions, check here:

http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/blends/index.en.html

Gruss
Bernd


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Re: Call for testing of next Debian Installer release

2008-09-17 Thread Jens Seidel
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:38:47AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
 Call for testing of Debian Installer
 - 

 The installer has a lot of new and impressive features against last
 Etch release and Lenny beta 2. For a better view of the changes made
 on the installer since last beta, take a look on our release
 announcement draft[1]. We are sure you are going to have a nice
 feeling about it. We count on you to help us!
 
 1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ReleaseAnnounce

It still mentions
Installations in Russian (and possibly some other languages) may fail
 due to an error from aptitude; most languages seem unaffected.
If this is related to #473559 consider either removing this note
or add Japanese.

 How could I help Debian Installer team?
 ===
 
 That is easy! Go to our development webpage[2], download the weekly
 builds or daily snapshots and give it a try! This is very important
 and simple way to help us since it is impossible for the team to try
 all possible configurations in different hardware sets.
 
 2. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Mhm, strange. This page contains:
Or install the current weekly snapshot of Debian testing which uses the
 same version of the installer as the last release:

The last release was Debian Etch so I assumed that weekly snapshots
contain an older (but more stable?) version of the installer. But it seems
that release refers to an Installer and not a Debian release? (Even if
this is clarified I'm not sure that everyone considers beta2 as a
release but maybe only as a release snapshot or a test version (because
of beta)). Please clarify this! I tried to address this recently in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/09/msg00692.html
but it seems I failed.

Jens


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