From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GIbFX-0000lE-4M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:21:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7V1KvX0022509; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:20:57 GMT Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7V1IhZr021933 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:18:44 GMT Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id n1so248546nzf for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:18:43 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=PwOgItfC6sulxwwuD4V47yzDUutuLNkbjhQTUnmAIMoQu+0yb0cYZY6uIjKtVW+rTb+OtVWng0UxNwuzrFTwd+7f0Py+emvSQAiBSn9h27wntJyHqKVUVyKcsOHvcadT+OR2Bcw9c1QdVjEBSL8chlw+P7bX95DHW6rOyViwOmA= Received: by 10.65.251.1 with SMTP id d1mr447945qbs; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.112.14 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:18:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5c18b7fe0608301818o3dce50d7qa782d5020c3051b6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:18:42 -0400 From: "Preston Cody" Sender: ppcodeman@gmail.com To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Installer Version 0.4 Release Announcement Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 61e3285df091aa27 X-Archives-Salt: aae12786-ad32-4214-912a-62bbadb2b181 X-Archives-Hash: 7be9f812f0ebf5647bdb84522391c76f The Installer Team is happy to announce the 0.4 release of the Gentoo Linux Installer. There are two major new features in this release and a number of smaller changes. The biggest change is an overhaul of the partitioning code. The installer will now be more gentle to people's drives and not recreate the partition map unless it must. Also, it will now abort an install _before_ partitioning if an unsupported layout or unknown filesystem is found. Note that unformatted partitions are currently considered "unknown" by the installer for safety reasons; please format them beforehand. The second big change is the addition of a "Networkless" mode in the frontends. Selecting a networkless install pre-selects many options and disables other options. This is in an effort to avoid letting users easily create configurations that will break the installation. Because of a lack of an Internet connection, the installer limits the packages and versions available to emerge. There have been a few other changes, mostly bug fixes, but the same general rules still apply. The installer is designed to be as flexible as possible, so despite our efforts to make it robust, if you really try to break it, you will likely succeed. We appologize that we have not been able to provide more features this release; the lead developers have been pre-occupied with making the 2006.1 release and getting the Scire project off the ground. Not to worry though! We still have a lot of things planned for the installer. Goals for the 2007.0 release include working internationalization in the frontends, improved partitioning with possibly LVM support, an overhaul of some of the GTK frontend screens, and support for ppc and Alpha architectures. As always, if you find a bug in the installer, please first READ THE FAQ, and if it is not a known issue or fixed in CVS, please file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. Enjoy! -Codeman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list