Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Also replying to other mails about Sarge support in Etch installer) > > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 20:42, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I ment that when you select sarge in choose-mirror in expert mode you >> get the inofficial list and if you choose etch/etch+1/sid you get the >> official one. > > Ah, OK. > > The Etch installer currently has extremely basic support for Sarge > installations which has only really been tested for i386. The real > downside of using the Etch installer for Sarge is that, although a > current kernel will be used for the installation, it will still install > 2.6.8 for the target system (it does not use any backports). > > This means that there is a relatively high chance that the user will > experience problems on the reboot into the target system.
Basicaly 100% since the user would/should have used the sarge installer if possible. But adding backports to the sources.list and installing a newer kernel is easily explained in a HowTo and done by the user on the fly. I don't think that this is a real show stopper. One could think about adding backports to sources.list automatically though if the testing installer is used to install stable. > I'm currently unsure if the udeb that adds Sarge support for the Etch > installer will make it into the final release of d-i for Etch. The main > reasons are: > - increasing differences between the Sarge 2.6.8 and current kernels; That is a reason for. > - questionable usability of systems installed this way; Hmm, what is questionable? A stable system with a fresher kernel is totaly usable. A lot, if not the majority, of users do this. > - Sarge support may be incompatible with changes needed to realize > persistent device naming for harddrives. What changes are those? Is Debian finaly going to use LABEL= or UUID= in the generated fstab? Isn't that also just limited to kernel, udev and fstab? udev is also available on backports so there should be no big problem there. > If it does make it, there will be disclaimers shown to the user after > mirror selection to the effect that there is only limited support and not > to come complaining if there are problems on reboot. Isn't it enough that you already need expert mode? > To finally answer your question: I don't think we will offer the > unofficial AMD64 mirrors in the Etch installer in this case, if only > because the mirror selection happens _before_ the suite/codename is > selected. That is a problem indeed. > Cheers, > FJP MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]