Debian 8 Jessie Installer Now Supports Running a 64-bit Linux Kernel on a 32-bit EFI

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Marius Nestor
Mar 28, 2015

Debian 8 Jessie Installer RC2 now enables the GRUB beep at boot for blind users, keeps track of even more packages in Built-Using, addresses issues with the default keyboard layout for many languages, fixes a possible segfault when installing Debian 8 on armel/armhf hardware, and removes the pm-utils package from the laptop and desktop tasks.

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Marius Nestor

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