On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 18:56 +0100, Mikael Backman wrote: > sön 2007-02-18 klockan 12:48 -0500 skrev Kevin Mark: > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:14:08AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > Last night I downloaded the latest daily snapshot of the Etch installer > > > for i386 from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and chose > > > the net-install image. Upon booting I pressed F1 for more options and > > > then one of the others (F3?) for boot options and found that > > > "installgui" would start the GUI installer. > > One of the use cases for the gui installer aka g-i was the need to > > address installation in certain non-english languages. Now folks who > > speak some popular indic languages can install Debian in their native > > language. woot! And some of the installer question were removed and > > made into defaults so that users didn't need to answer un-needed > > question. As you found out, a vast imporvment was made to the process > > when compared to boot-floppies :-) As for the progress bar, I'm sure a > > wishlist bug might help there. > > Is there any way to get this CD-netinstaller onto a DVD? My computer > boots DVDs only...
So, you are telling me, that the DVD-Drive won't boot bootable CDS? You have a broken BIOS or DVD drive. Period. You should update your BIOS and/or DVD Firmware. How do I know? I have been booting bootable CDs for years from DVD drives. And I mean multiple machines (and brands) and multiple brand DVDs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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