On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 09:51:00PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Brandon Mitchell <bmitch@surfree.com> writes:
>
> > What can the testing group do that would be the most beneficial to the
> > boot floppy group at this time? Should we be testing that the kernel
> > boots and detects hardware, or that the base system works properly under a
> > chroot environment, or is it time to start doing complete installations?
> > I assume any problems should be reported through the BTS.
>
> Complete installations. Especially the new 'net-fetch' installation
> technique. Ignore the 'network' installation technique, that
> shouldn't be in there I think.
Only use net-fetch to install the base system. It is able to install the
operating system (kernel) and modules as well, but the default kernel has
no ethernet drivers - so you have to install those from the driver disks.
Net-fetch hasn't been tested in practice, so I am quite curious whether it
works or not.
The net-fetch messages to the user aren't in place yet, suggestions are
welcome. It now prints 'put some helpful text in here' messages and such.
Cheers,
Marcel
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