Installing Debian Jessie under Uefi; installer does not speak

[Samuel Thibault]

Steve Matzura, on Sat 02 Jan 2016 10:51:48 -0500, wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 10:02:17 +1300, "Marcel Oats" <moats at orcon.net.nz>
> wrote:
> 
> >> I have a system that will only boot using Uefi (don't ask) and it 
> >> seems that the dvd's boot screen appears, according to someone with 
> >> sight, but when typing the s option, it is ignored?
> >
> >Indeed, nobody reported before that this wasn't working. This got fixed lately (see debian bug #798908), but not before 8.2.0 got released.  The fix should be available in 8.3.0 and 9.0.
> 
> I haven't seen 8.3.0 (not to mention 9) out yet.

As said in another mail, they don't exist yet.

> Do you know when that might happen? I like to keep my media and
> torrents up-to-date.

9 is expected about beginning of 2017. 8.3 will probably get out soon,
since 8.2 was in september.

Samuel