Call for testing of D-I RC2 test images

2007-03-12 Thread Frans Pop 
Hello,

The debian-cd team has built CD/DVD images based on what's going to be 
Debian Installer RC2.

We could use some help testing these images, especially the KDE, Xfce and 
multi-arch images. For multi-arch, testing both the CD and DVD is 
welcome.

All images can be downloaded from the D-I project page [1]. Please do not 
use images from other directories on the CD server than those linked from 
there.

Tests in languages other than English are also very welcome.

Please let us know the results by filing an installation report [2].

TIA,
FJP

[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
[2] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug


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Re: Call for testing of D-I RC2 test images

2007-03-12 Thread Frans Pop 
On Monday 12 March 2007 15:51, Frans Pop wrote:
> All images can be downloaded from the D-I project page [1]. Please do
> not use images from other directories on the CD server than those
> linked from there.

Note that the "other images" linked from the D-I project page are _not_ 
RC2 images. These can be obtained from:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-/rc2/images/

However, this call for testing is specifically for CD/DVD images.


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Re: [stable, D-I] Kernel selection broken for some architectures

2007-03-12 Thread J.A. Bezemer 

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Frans Pop wrote:

> Unfortunately we seem to have missed a change that was needed because of 
> the ABI change in 3.1r3. We have not noticed this until now because the 
> old kernels were still included in the archive and on CD images. With 
> 3.1r5 the old images were removed which brought the issue to the surface.
> 
> The result of this is that for some architectures (i386, hppa, ia64, s390) 
> an incorrect kernel may be selected during base installation.
> See also: #412295, #412909.
> 
> The changes should have been made in some default values included in the 
> rootskel udeb. Updating the rootskel udeb now would mean that we would 
> need to rebuild D-I images, which is obviously not very desirable.
> 
> Fortunately an alternative solution is possible: correcting the default 
> after it has been read from the debconf database.
> 
> I have implemented this solution in base-installer (1.13.4sarge2) and 
> uploaded that new version to stable. As base-installer is not included in 
> D-I initrds for the affected architectures, this means we "only" need to 
> include this new version in stable and rebuild CD images.
> 
> I understand that a 3.1r5a was already being considered, so this fix could 
> be included in that update.

One of my customers just asked if there is an ETA for r5a...


Best regards,

  Anne Bezemer


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