For those who care about the backported debian-installer -- kernel 2.6.16 version is released

Today I built the backported d-i image with kernel 2.6.16. I updated many codes also.

• Applied 3.1r2 for the base.
• Applied kernel 2.6.16-15bpo2 was taken from backports.org. This version has CVE-2006-2934/CVE-2006-2451 fixes.(thanks Norbert!)
• Copied partitioner codes from unstable-installer. For example, you can choose LVM auto partitioner.
• Included linux-headers-2.6.16-* in ISO.
• Included megaraid_sas in initramfs-tools/hooks-functions. (I dunno whether this is correct or not..)
• Package updates are introduced by kernel update and backports.org up-to-date: cdebconf, di-utils, grub, initramfs-tools, klibc, libdebian-installer, lsb-base, parted, rootskel, udev, yaird

You can download the image from backported d-i images portal.

Note: Although I'd tried 2.6.17 version once, finally I gave up. I succeeded to build kernel image from unstable source on Sarge. But linux-kbuild package, for linux-kernel-headers helper, was failed to build with gcc-3.3. Gcc-4.0 or above works, but they don't exist on Sarge.

(Don't nag me about CUPS... Most problems are upstream's matter and upstream is preparing 1.2.2 release at this time. I'll run again after it's released.)