Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel

From	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel
Date	2022-04-14 20:50 +0200
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Tixy [2022-04-14 19:19:25] wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 11:18 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > I think it would be great to provide such a (semi-)official support
>> > for
>> > backported kernels in the installer again.  There is probably a
>> > significant number of users which use testing, just because they
>> > can't
>> > install stable on their systems.
>> Another approach is to use the "Debian testing" installer and later
>> adjust the system to "Debian stable". 
> Package downgrades aren't supported, and I don't expect what you
> suggest would go well.

Indeed with the current system you'd have to perform a downgrade, but if
this was taken seriously it would just mean that the Debian installer
would become somewhat independent from the release it installs which
should not be too hard to do technically.

        Stefan

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Debian installer with a newer kernel Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-04-14 11:20 +0200
  Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-04-14 12:10 +0200
    Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-04-14 12:30 +0200
      Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-04-14 17:20 +0200
        Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-04-14 20:20 +0200
          Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-04-14 20:50 +0200

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