Bug#590678: At least fix www/debian-installer page
Hi,
thanks for testing the installer images on usb media and caring enough
to report the problems you found.
Nowadays usb devices are cheap and even more common than cd/dvd-rom
readers and testing d-i on usb media is not so easy to accomplish
successfully.
There are already several reports on these problems while testing on usb
devices. Some of them seems to be caused by using different sets of
images to boot/install (the manual warns about it) and if you follow the
debian-list/bts you are already aware of several reports on .iso images
not being found on media.
At this point in time, near the release, it is advised to test the daily
images.
And of course you are right the installer page does not reflect that.
IMO the USB images should be discussed further and try to ease the
process of testing them (if possible). There are even submitted patches:
#505773.
On the other hand, we are now in freeze, and we should fix problems and
not make big changes.
IMHO this is a good discussion for Squeeze+1.
There is a tremendous lack of manpower on d-i development. If you care
enough, and have the motivation, please help sorting out this issue.
On 12-09-2010 23:47, Javier Barroso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it is not fine closing this bug without clarifies it in
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html
>
> See seems like you can't install from usb+iso following instructuions
> from such page, this bug and a thread in debian-user mail list verify
> that. (isos are from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/ (feb
> 2010)) and boot.img.gz linked are from
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/
> (sept 2010).
>
> So should be a link to hd-media from squeeze_di_alpha1, shouldn't it ?
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
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Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards,
Miguel Figueiredo
http://www.DebianPT.org
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