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This page is used to prepare the next release announcement to be send to debian-boot and debian-devel-announce mailing lists.

Title: Beta 1 release of Debian Installer

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first beta release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze.

Improvements in this release of the installer

  • Auto-selection of kernel for ?PlayStation 3;

  • Recovery partitions for Microsoft Windows are properly detected;
  • Linux kernel updated to 2.6.32;
  • GNU Parted updated to 2.2;
  • Support for new platforms has been add:
    • Marvell ?GuruPlug

    • Marvell OpenRD-Ultimate
    • HP t5325 Thin Client (partial support)

Behavioral changes in this release

  • Installer now uses udhcpc as DHCP client, except on kFreeBSD images.
  • Support for the reiserfs file system is no longer included by default. To use reiserfs for a new system, select partman-reiserfs in the selection dialog for optional installer components (at medium or low priority) or boot the installer with 'modules?=partman-reiserfs'.

  • No longer creates the /cdrom compatibility symlink to /media/cdrom. /cdrom was deprecated in Etch.

Known issues in this release

See the errata 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.

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


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