Re: debian-installer help wanted
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:43:29PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> - security fixed, 2.4.24 kernel (with SATA support)
> (done for stock i386 (but not SATA, probably?))
I actually installed woody (bf24) onto a system with only SATA disks a few
days ago. It worked, but things were a little strange (trickle of
"unexpected interrupt" messages on the console), and was sometimes unstable.
Upgrading to kernel-image-2.4.24-i386 from unstable cleared everything up,
and the system has been rock solid ever since, so I think that if you use a
kernel at least that recent, SATA should be fine.
> - better wireless support
> wireless-tools-udeb is available, but is not loaded by default
> on netinst CD
> no easy configurator yet (Joshua Kwan)
Isn't the usual problem with wireless that the drivers for most cards must
be built from source because they aren't in the standard kernel? Are we
going to try to provide binary modules?
> We still need more people testing d-i on more strange and wonderful
> hardware. See http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer for details.
Is there any hardware that particularly needs testing?
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- mdz
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