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Debian-Installer pre-rc2, a technology preview release
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The pre-rc2 release is a preview of new features we hope to add to the next
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release candidate. This release is an opportunity to get some wider testing
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of our most recent improvements to the installer before we declare it
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stable and ready for the release of sarge.
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In the nearly two months since the release of rc1, we've made a number of
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improvements to the installer, including:
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- Support for completely automated installs via debconf database preseeding.
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<http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s07.html>
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- Online resizing of NTFS filesystems.
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- Support for booting from LVM.
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- Support for booting from software RAID 1 (experimental).
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- Software RAID 5.
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- 2.4.27 and 2.6.8.1 kernels.
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- Support for piles of additional hardware.
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- Fixed all of the errata of rc1.
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- Installs possible with at little as 24 mb of memory.
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- Two months of improvements to the software in Debian sarge.
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- More other improvements than we could list here in a week.
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This version of the installer is *not* suitable to be used as the final
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installer for the Debian sarge release; it may have rough edges and not all
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the translations are up-to-date. It should work fine for most people, and
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we welcome your installation reports.
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Links to bootable images and documentation are on our web site.
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<http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/>
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