Hi there,

good news. We managed to put the new paldo-installer to the testing branch. Now everybody can test it with the live-cd in 32 and 64 bit.



Features of the installer 0.1.3

• language selection
  
• you can install it on 4 partitions (boot/root/home/swap)
  
• add one user account (we will add an option to add more than one later)
  
• autoformat unformated partitions
  
• it has a nice gtk-gui and is easy to use

What we need you for

We want to add the installer to the next stable release of paldo so we need you as beta-testers. Tell us what went wrong. What we missed. What is not so good. etc.

Here are some examples what you can test

1-set: paldo on one partition (root)
2-set: paldo on two partitions (root+home, root+swap, root+boot)
3-set: paldo on three partitions (root+home+swap, root+boot+swap, root+home+boot)
4-set: paldo on four partitions (root+home+swap+boot)

We are working hard to get it done the way we all like it.

regards

Philip M

Zitat

paldo-installer-0.1.3 todo * display the error messages (we have lots of space to do it) * add check for root-size (min 2200 mb) * add check for boot-size (min 150 mb) * add option to add more than one user

it would be nice some will be in the next release.

The ISOs before 2007-10-16 20:53 GMT where buggy. It should now be fixed. x86 needs still a final test on a real PC but for x86_64 it is all fine.

Version 0.1.3 fixed all problems.

Here are some things would be nice to find in the next release of the installer.

Zitat

paldo-installer 0.1.4 todo * detect installed kernels on /boot (exp. you installed the other arch of paldo) * detect windows installations * check for root-size should be variable (get the size of the squashfs) * add option to add custom kernel-cmds to the grub-line (like "nodmraid") * add option to add more than one user * add option to translate the installer

Here is the changelog:

* Use persistent device names for partitions.
* Dynamically calculate minimal root partition size.
* Add existing Windows installations to GRUB menu.
* Add German translation.
* Bug fixes.

Here you can download the new images with the new installer on them:

paldo-live-cd-x86-testing.iso
paldo-live-cd-x86_64-testing.iso

paldo-installer 0.1.5
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* Adjust upkg.conf file (Philip Mueller).
* Improve labels on partitioning page.

The new installer supports now translations. Everybody can help us to translate it to your language. We still need followed translations:

• french
  
• italian
  
• polish
  
• portuguese
  
• spanish
  
• turkish

More info here:

http://forum.paldo.org/index.php?action=topic&topicnr=254