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Posted Jun 16, 2005 2:54 UTC (Thu) by joey (subscriber, #328)Parent article: Debian Sarge Declared Stable
> an optional 2.6.8 kernel is also available in the initial GRUB boot
> menu after installation
No, a 2.6.8 kernel is available as a boot option for the installer. It's also the default on several architectures (powerpc, amd64, hppa). Sure, you can choose to install two kernels and get a choice in the resulting grub boot menu, but that is not default behavior.
> the installer makes some intelligent partitioning and package
> selection guesses based on a preferred "scheme" as chosen by the user.
> As an example, selecting "workstation" as the preferred scheme,
> the installer would create separate partitions for /usr, /var, /tmp
> and /home, then install GNOME, KDE and many development packages. On
> the other hand, choosing "desktop" as the preferred scheme would
> result in a root partition with only one separate partition for
> /home, plus GNOME and KDE, and without the development packages.
No, partitioning schemes and software installation tasks are not connected, and do not influence one another at all. Although I hope the installer does begin to connect them post sarge.
> The new installer also comes with a hardware auto-detection
> module enabled by default, although first reports indicate that these
> are not as powerful and reliable as the ones found in most other major
> distributions.
Despite, oddly enough, being nearly identical to the one used to install Ubuntu, which LWN has glowingly reviewed in the past.
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Posted Jun 17, 2005 1:15 UTC (Fri) by ladislav (guest, #247) [Link]
No, a 2.6.8 kernel is available as a boot option for the installer. It's also the default on several architectures (powerpc, amd64, hppa). Sure, you can choose to install two kernels and get a choice in the resulting grub boot menu, but that is not default behavior.You are right. I noticed that the GRUB menu was automatically populated with several other entries of distributions that I had installed on the same machine, including some with the 2.6 kernels, so I wrongly assumed, without looking at the menu very carefully, that a 2.6 kernel was installed by sarge. My mistake - sorry about that.