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Title: Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer
The Debian Installer [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team team] is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny.
Improvements in this release of the installer
Behavioral changes in this release
Known issues in this release
- Installations in Russian (and possibly some other languages) may fail due to an error from aptitude; most languages seem unaffected.
- i386: for this release installation from floppy disk is not supported.
- i386/amd64:GRUB installation on cpqarray RAID volumes (/dev/ida/cXdX) may fail.
- Known issues for the graphical installer:
- touchpads should work, but support may not be optimal; if you experience problems, you should use an external mouse instead;
- should work on almost all PowerPC systems that have an ATI graphics card, but is unlikely to work on other PowerPC systems.
See the [http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata 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 [http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer web site].
Our thanks to everybody who has contributed to this release.