On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:02:43PM -0600, Lakin Wecker wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:46, Luis Sanjuan wrote: > > > I didn't have much luck with the beta 4 installer. Specifically the > > > yaboot installer failed miserably and was a pain in the ass to fix. The > > > May 24th 2004 images for Sid worked wonderfully for me in this > > > respect. I would recommend trying the daily built images or at least > > > contacting the debian boot mailing list. > > > > > > > Users should always report their installation problems. Users feedback > > is a neccesary step in the development process. Developers are not > > omniscient, of course. I sent a bug against yaboot-installer and > > probably without it you haven't got success with that daily built > > image. > > > Ummm. Ok. > > I'm not sure I understand what you are implying by this. By the time > tested the beta installer, the bug had been fixed in the daily images. > I found this out and did not bother reporting a bug which had already > been fixed.
Of course, I want only to emphasize the relevance of user feedback _in general_. This is also a good reason to choose Debian: users can help decisively to improve the distribution. Users and developers are together in the same collaborative process. Greetings :) Luis Sanjuan