Debian Installer Lenny Release Candidate 1

[ Thanks to Martin Michlmayr for this link. ]

"Improvements in this release of the installer:
- Improved support for Live-CD installation media (much faster and more reliable than earlier releases);
- Support for some NAS devices based on Marvell's ARM-compatible Orion chip: QNAP TS-109/TS-209 and TS-409; HP Media Vault mv2120; Buffalo Kurobox Pro;
- Installer images for Netwinder have been added again;
- Installer images for i386 Xen guests
- Support for hardware speech synthesis (speakup) has been added;
- Upgrade of packages early in pkgsel, for example to get available security updates for base system packages;
- Support for loading firmware from (removable) media during the installation;
- i386/amd64: support for installing to and loading firmware from MMC/SD cards;
- New translations: Welsh, Irish, Northern Sami, Serbian (Amharic and Marathi were added in beta releases)."

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