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The Installer Team is happy to announce the 0.4 release of the Gentoo |
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Linux Installer. There are two major new features in this release and |
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a number of smaller changes. |
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The biggest change is an overhaul of the partitioning code. The |
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installer will now be more gentle to people's drives and not recreate |
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the partition map unless it must. Also, it will now abort an install |
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_before_ partitioning if an unsupported layout or unknown filesystem |
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is found. Note that unformatted partitions are currently considered |
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"unknown" by the installer for safety reasons; please format them |
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beforehand. |
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The second big change is the addition of a "Networkless" mode in the |
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frontends. Selecting a networkless install pre-selects many options |
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and disables other options. This is in an effort to avoid letting |
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users easily create configurations that will break the installation. |
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Because of a lack of an Internet connection, the installer limits the |
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packages and versions available to emerge. |
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There have been a few other changes, mostly bug fixes, but the same |
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general rules still apply. The installer is designed to be as |
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flexible as possible, so despite our efforts to make it robust, if you |
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really try to break it, you will likely succeed. |
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We appologize that we have not been able to provide more features this |
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release; the lead developers have been pre-occupied with making the |
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2006.1 release and getting the Scire project off the ground. Not to |
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worry though! We still have a lot of things planned for the |
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installer. Goals for the 2007.0 release include working |
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internationalization in the frontends, improved partitioning with |
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possibly LVM support, an overhaul of some of the GTK frontend screens, |
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and support for ppc and Alpha architectures. |
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As always, if you find a bug in the installer, please first READ THE |
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FAQ, and if it is not a known issue or fixed in CVS, please file a bug |
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at bugs.gentoo.org. |
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Enjoy! |
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-Codeman |
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