Install stable with the new installer (was Re: Thanks for Debian Installer)

2004-07-30 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of dircha on 2004-07-29 22:45:05 -0500: > Is there an advanced option in the new installer to install woody? I > swear I remember seeing at least an advanced option to install sid directly. If you boot into the 'expert' install and load the installer component to select the mirr

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 17:28 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: --snip-- > I don't suppose you managed to get it to either: > > a) Create software RAID devices without hanging, or > b) Just mount an existing software RAID device without attempting to > recreate it? I actually just tried this a couple of da

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-30 Thread Paul Gear
Steve Witt wrote: > ... > Yeah, me too. I had to install one of the first real servers (from a > hardware point of view) I've ever done. It has 6 IDE disks all on > separate PCI IDE Controllers (none on the motherboard IDE channels), > some SCSI, gigabit Ethernet and other fairly new hardware thing

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-29 Thread dircha
Steve Witt wrote: I used beta4 and it ROCKS! I really wanted to install woody on this machine but the woody installation couldn't deal with the IDE configuration of this computer, so I tried the new installer with sarge and it worked great. Is there an advanced option in the new installer to instal

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-29 Thread Steve Witt
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Harshwardhan Shashikant Nagaonkar wrote: I just wanted to say thanks to the d-i guys, I used it today to install some new systems and it was just great... autodetecting everything (on a new hp-compaq d530 no less, with a broadcom network card etc.). I eventually did put wood