installation-guide - Debian installation manual

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2008-05-07	Document finish-install/keep-consoles boot parameter and preseeding.	Frans Pop

2008-05-04	Update known issues for graphical installer: entropy gathering for	Frans Pop
	encrypted partitioning is now supported; localechooser now has nice columns but other components still need to be done.
2008-04-30	* Update kernel versions.	Frans Pop
	* Update memory requirements for i386 and amd64. Elaborate on installing systems with less memory than the listed minimum.
2008-04-28	Use current release name in 'auto mode' examples	Frans Pop

2008-04-28	Revert accidentally committed file	Frans Pop

2008-04-28	Add an explanation of 'owner' in instructions for creating a ↵	Frans Pop
	preconfiguration file (#478219)
2008-04-28	Explain how a grub password can be generated	Frans Pop

2008-04-28	Let mkpasswd example match man page; also update translations	Frans Pop

2008-04-28	Update how to suppress the removal of existing LVM data using preseeding; ↵	Frans Pop
	with thanks to Geert Stappers
2008-04-28	Document preseeding of grub password	Frans Pop

2008-04-24	Specify for which release the example preseed file is valid	Frans Pop

2008-04-23	Minor improvement	Frans Pop

2008-04-23	Fix now incorrect plural and add a sentence for improved separation to the ↵	Frans Pop
	actual preseed examples
2008-04-23	Correct command to use to allow preseeding of netcfg when using a	Frans Pop
	preconfiguration file downloaded from a server (preseed/url). Thanks to Durk Strooisma for the report and analysis. Also correct and unfuzzy PO-based translations.
2008-04-19	Revert accidentally committed file	Frans Pop

2008-04-19	Document new boot parameters to define mouse protocol and device (port)	Frans Pop
	for the graphical installer.
2008-04-05	Fix missing template type; also fix and unfuzzy PO-based translations	Frans Pop

2008-03-28	Remove autopartkit from the module list.	Joey Hess

2008-03-26	Fix double / in links, spotted by Stanislav Gromov; unfuzzy PO-based ↵	Frans Pop
	translations
2008-03-22	Update task selection section for changes in desktop task preseeding	Frans Pop

2008-03-14	Warn about boot issues when using RAID on the root file system	Frans Pop

2008-03-06	Update apt-setup documentation for support of multiple CD/DVDs.	Frans Pop
	Thanks to Jens Seidel, Philip Hands and Holger Wansing for their comments.
2008-03-06	Review of new section on booting from Windows	Frans Pop
	* Revised the text; thanks to Holger Wansing for his comments and patch * Changed whitespacing in line with rest of document * Moved the section up a bit * Added a changelog entry
2008-02-26	minor fix at boot-win32 section	Otavio Salvador

2008-02-25	Document win32-loader.	Robert Millan

2008-02-25	* Note that an empty preseed file is equivalent to a normal manual	Colin Watson
	installation (thanks, Nathan Sutton).
2008-02-25	typo	Colin Watson

2008-02-25	* Spell "multiselect" correctly in apt-setup/services-select preseeding	Colin Watson
	example.
2008-02-20	Remove console switching issue as it has been solved	Frans Pop

2008-02-20	Use VT2 instead of VT1 in the console switching example as VT1 is not really ↵	Frans Pop
	useful with the graphical installer
2008-02-19	Clarify console switching for the graphical installer	Frans Pop
	Thanks to Tim Richardson for the suggestion.
2008-02-06	Fix typo spotted by Felipe Augusto van de Wiel and unfuzzy PO-based translations	Frans Pop

2008-01-07	network-console:	Frans Pop
	- add information about dropped connections and how to avoid that (thanks to G. Del Merritt for raising the issue) - add footnote with command to remove a host from the known_hosts file
2008-01-02	Installation is no longer in two stages	Frans Pop

2008-01-01	* Use &releasename; rather than hardcoding etch in sources.list	Colin Watson
	recommendation for chroot installs. Closes: #458459.
2007-12-31	Reorder clock/user setup in preconfiguration appendix too	Frans Pop

2007-12-30	* howto: update for changes in the installation procedure.	Frans Pop

2007-12-27	fix typo	Yuri Kozlov

2007-12-25	Improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for ↵	Frans Pop
	guided and manual partitioning
2007-12-25	Minor improvement: tzsetup is now done much closer to localechooser	Frans Pop

2007-12-25	Minor corrections in section titles	Frans Pop

2007-12-25	Update using-d-i for post-Etch changes:	Frans Pop
	- move clock-setup, tzsetup and user-setup to reflect their changed position in the installation procedure - mention that clock-setup will now attempt to set the system time from a time server - split clock-setup as part is now executed during finish-install - add instructions on how a different time zone from the one(s) that match the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ)
2007-12-12	* Clarify that you need to actually provide an autopartitioning method as	Colin Watson
	well as preseeding the partman confirmation messages.
2007-11-07	* Document debian-installer/exit/halt preseed.	Joey Hess

2007-11-01	Add comma; spotted by Holger Wansing	Frans Pop

2007-11-01	Fix invalid tag spotted by Holger Wansing	Frans Pop

2007-11-01	Fix typo spotted by Holger Wansing	Frans Pop

2007-10-31	* Warn against installing Debian while another OS is hibernated.	Frans Pop

2007-10-23	fix typo	Yuri Kozlov

2007-10-21	Updates to appendix on chroot installs:	Frans Pop
	- add disclaimer: the appendix only covers the basic steps needed to install a system - add a section with some basic instructions about creating device files - add an 'initrd=' line to the example lilo.conf Thanks to Igor Stirbu for noting the issue with missing device files and grub installation.