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Re: Testing installer images



Steve McIntyre wrote:
> I'm organising a group of us on the Debian stand at the Linux User and
> Developer Show in London early next week, and we're hoping to give
> sarge installer CDs to people to help test. From the page at
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/, it looks like we should
> be able to give out netinst CDs for several architectures. Hopefully
> we'll get lots of useful testing done by some eager punters.
> 
> At this point, I'd like to ask for some help. I've not been keeping up
> with progress as much as I'd like, so I'm not sure of the following:
> 
>   What's the best version to use? Should I go with beta 3, or use one
>   of the daily builds?
> 
>   Are there known gotchas that I should know about before burning
>   dozens of CDs and passing them out?

I'd suggest giving them beta3 CDs, either the netinst isos, or the full
isos (the businesscard isos can tend toward a shorter shelf life than
these).

Also, if possible you should print out the errata (maybe leave out the
non-i386 bits) and include that with the CDs.

-- 
see shy jo

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