Re: howto help testing boot floppies.
This is a good idea.
I think at this point it would be premature to enlist a bunch of testers. We
should probably wait until we can do a full install.
Before that, maybe it would make sense to pull the hardware detection (once it
is finished) out into a little application that simply named the hardware
relavent to the debian-installer:
modem detected on ttyS1
ethernet card detected that requires eepro100 module
1 scsi drive detected
2 ide hard drives
486 cpu detected
Is that correcy (y/[n]) ?
And later have testers boot off real boot floppies.
Another note. As far as I know debian-installer is only concerned with hardware
detection necessary for getting the full debian system installed. This does not
include things such as sound cards, display adapters, joysticks, even mice. We
are relying on the respective packages to do their own detection, or better yet,
for the base system to deploy some sort of centralized hardware management
scheme. (Progeny's 'discover' looks promising.)
I point this out because this is a change from what the boot-floppies used to
do. debian-installer will do less setup before booting into a full debian
system, but what it does do it will do better.
-David
Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:34:29AM +0100 wrote:
> Please cc: me.
>
> Some people have been complaining about hardware detection on
> on -devel lately, and someone answered you need more people to
> help testing.
>
> I'm sure lots of people don't have the time to follow debian-boot
> (I don't...). But if you could post some urls on where to grab
> images to test along with the weekly debian-installer report,
> I'm sure some people will test it. At least I will.
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