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Title: Debian Installer 6.0 Release Candidate 2 release
The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze.
Improvements in this release of the installer
- kFreeBSD specific:
- kernel updated to 8.1+dfsg-7.1 which fixes a keyboard issue and also address firmware issues;
- Keyboard configuration for the graphical installer fixed for several languages;
Do not verwrites MBR of installation medium (support for hybrid and hd-media has been fixed) (568529);
Behavioral changes in this release
- ...
Known issues in this release
See the errata 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.
Thanks
The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this release.
Blockers for final release
603536 (fixed in daily built images, need debian-cd upload): use iso-level 4 to properly work on IBM PowerPC machines;
598130: grub-pc fails to be installed.
- If you know any other please add it for review.
Good to have fixed
- If you know any other please add it for review.
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