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

Intro

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first Beta of Debian Lenny Installer. This is the first release since Etch has been out.

Preseeding and extensibility

Mirrors and additional packages on physical media

Localization

The following language was added (to the graphical installer only): Amharic.

Debian Installer translations are complete for 41 languages and over 90% for 18 more languages.

Support for "Serial ATA RAID"

XXX: add excerpt and link to the relevant documentation and email

win32-loader

XXX: and exceprt and link to the relevant documentation and email

Memory usage improvements

Optional support for GRUB 2

XXX: and exceprt and link to the relevant documentation and email

Support for Etch installations

The installer now supports installing Etch, through the etch-support package.

This will allow installations of the "Etch+1/2" release supporting more hardware through an updated kernel version. (XXX: link to relevant email)

Misc improvements

Partitioner

Development

Misc bug fixed

Plans for next Beta release