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Full release announcement: |
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The Gentoo Linux Installer team has released version 0.6.6 of the installer |
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on the 2008.0-r1 LiveCDs for x86 and amd64. The improvements in this release |
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are intended to improve the stability and simplicity of the installation |
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(yes, we know, at the expense of customizability). For those still wanting |
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to customize every detail, the ability to do a manual install will always |
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exist in Gentoo. Another alternative would be Quickstart for automated |
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installations, assuming you have a blank or pre-partitioned drive to work with. |
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Major Changes: |
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* Partitioning has been simplified and somewhat limited to improve stability. |
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All changes occur immediately rather than get queued up. Make note of that. |
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* The installer now *only* supports networkless installations. This was done |
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because we have spent a lot of time trying to make the release snapshot stable |
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and it is a good base upon which you can update things later if necessary. |
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Also the installs are faster this way, and don't require downloading or run |
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the risk of hitting broken tree issues. |
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As always with improvements, there are new bugs created to go along with them. |
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If you do encounter a bug, make sure to save your /tmp/installprofile.xml and |
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/var/log/installer.log.failed from the LiveCD right after the install fails. |
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File a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org/. Select the "Gentoo Release Media" product |
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and the "Installer" component. If you can't find that, just use the following |
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link: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gentoo%20Release%20Media&component=Installer&format=guided |
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-Codeman |
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