Bug#434034: debian-installer: need an option of memtest86+ on the install CD

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Saturday 21 July 2007 20:13, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 July 2007 05:50, Russell Coker wrote:
> > It's recommended that you run memtest before installing a machine to
> > ensure that it will work well.
>
> Exactly who should run memtest? The user (manually) or the installer
> (automatically, by default)?

The user.

I advocate doing what is done in Fedora, you get a boot prompt from the CD and 
then you can type "memtest" and press ENTER if you want to test the memory.  
Otherwise you have the regular options.

I'm not aware of memtest taking any parameters, you just boot it and it can 
then take a minor amount of configuration at run-time.

I recommend that you try out a Fedora install, this is not the only idea that 
is worth copying.