On Saturday 21 July 2007 13:29, Russell Coker wrote: > 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. OK. I'm aware of how to run memtest. It was not clear from your report if you maybe had something more elaborate in mind, like some "basic test" that could be performed by default. The trick of course will be how to get users to actually use the option... Note that we only very rarely see installation issues caused by faulty memory, but it is small and useful enough that it doesn't really hurt to include it either. This makes it more a debian-cd wishlist than a debian-installer wishlist, although the isolinux config file and help screens are generated by D-I. Not sure how best to implement this. I guess we could just assume that memtest will be available for inclusion by debian-cd. P.S. After watching your presentation at LCA, I added supporting Xen installations as a possible goal for lenny [1], but we would need someone to actively work on that. Especially to work out the concept: - how/where would the user get to select that he wants a Xen server - what needs to be adapted - what additional functionality is needed - what extra/specific packages are needed on the installed system - ... If you want to develop that idea further, please join the d-boot list. P.P.S. You seem to be blocking direct mails from me. Would it be possible to whilelist this address?
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