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Re: Releasing Slink (was Re: Please add new version of Release-Notes)



Loic Prylli writes:

> > 2. Starting _now_ we have people building CD images for each platform.
> >    These will need to be re-done again later as uploads are made, but we
> >    need feedback _now_ if there are any missing packages or other CD image
> >    problems.
>
>Hi
>
>A few improvements for the Alpha CD are really needed, to ensure
>it is really bootable, I will provide another installation set and
>slink_cd patches for Tuesday.

OK, fine.

> > 3. On Friday final images are made for each of the release architectures.
> >    I can do i386 and source, we need volunteers for m68k, alpha and sparc. 
> >    Let us know ASAP if you can help. Steve, you willing to do sparc still?
> >    In theory, one person could do all of them, but in practice this just
> >    does not work. And these need to be sanity checked before we pronounce
> >    them ready to go. 
>
>If really nobody is wanting to take the job for Alpha, I can try to also
>generate the Alpha CDs. Until now, due to resources limitations, I
>have only been able to test the slink_cd scripts and boot stuff on a
>small debian subset (I have just asked an account on
>cdimage.debian.org). 

Cool.

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