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An anonymous reader writes "With everyone around talking about how Woody has an outdated installer and lacks some new packages and hardware support, some people feel the urge to get to work.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."
Cool (Score:3, Interesting)
Should be good even for doing basic partitioning and FS prep before putting in a full distro.
Writing an installer? Make it portable. Please. (Score:5, Interesting)
Anaconda (Score:2, Interesting)
Woody's "up to date" (Score:3, Interesting)
Question about using non-standard installers (Score:3, Interesting)
Do non-standard installers have an effect on security updates?
I've wondered about that with livecd distros that can set up debian systems on a hard disk. If they draw their packages from standard sources, you'd have to figure that the updates would come through ok.
But what about the things the installer itself sets up? Does it all come from packages that will be updated, or does some of the system come from files on the install media that aren't covered by package update?