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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
- Modules for PATA devices are now available on CD-ROM images. This fixes installation problems with Marvell disk controllers.
- The Installation Guide provided on CD and DVD images is now up-to-date
Behavioral changes in this release
Known issues in this release
- i386: for this release installation from floppy disk is not supported.
- PowerPC: the graphical installer should work on almost all systems with ATI graphics cards, but probably not others;
- touchpads should work with the graphical installer, but support may be suboptimal - if you experience problems, you should use an external mouse instead.
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].
The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this release.