A Modern Woody Debian GNU/Linux Installer 56
An anonymous reader writes "With everyone around talking about how Woody has an outdated installer and lacks some new packages and hardware support, some people feel the urge to get to work. The result? A customized installer. It has a 2.4.26 version kernel, supports XFS, LVM, RAID and various hardware drivers. Comes along with vim, bash, you can even resize partitions using parted and you get postfix as the default MTA. It has two flavours, a business card CD and a miniCD version which will help you install a minimal Debian system or even a X Window desktop."
Re:Writing an installer? Make it portable. Please. (Score:4, Informative)
Anaconda: Not Interesting (!!!) (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Writing an installer? Make it portable. Please. (Score:2, Informative)
Its modular to support all the things you want, and supports 10 archetures at this stage. Being modular should allow people to: script it, put a GUI on it, hardware autodection modules (already done), multiple boot methods (PXE,USB mass-storage,CD-rom...)
Elivs
Re:Yeah but... (Score:4, Informative)
2. Slap forehead, keep woody install CD in CD-Rom drive, reboot, read help by pressing F-whatever it says.
3. Instead of hitting return to boot, follow the directions you found in the help and do "bf24" at the prompt to boot into 2.4
4. Hopefully that gets you going...
I'm not saying woody is perfect - i've had to install PCI ethernet cards too many times because the default kernel won't do modern integrated ones... But it does support 2.4.18 which is much better than 2.2.
Re:Woody's "up to date" (Score:3, Informative)
Because it's installing Woody. And the most recent kernel in Woody is 2.4.
Please read up on the Debian release system before making clueless comments.
The Debian team has already done this (Score:4, Informative)
Please check out Debian Installer [debian.org]. I think you will be plesantly pleased