Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Actually, there is a third beta which have been made up by us last week. I
> think it's just a matter of hours it appears on mirrors as an ISO-image,
> at least this was my information from our Quality Assurance team, at the
> end of last week :-).
>
> Current cooker has been heavily modified since this third beta, because of
> i486, sparc, and alpha port, on which we're currently working.
>
> For all of you cookers out there, who wish to test our third beta [which
> should be closer as never to the final version..] I must apologize for the
> delay, and ask you to wait a little bit more, for availability of ISO
> image.
Do you not realise how silly this approach is for beta testers? If
you have distribution room for the 2 iso image files (which are of
little direct use unless one burns two CDs, since you do NOT supply
an iso.img floppy from which we can directly install or upgrade),
then you have room for a distribution tree to replace it, from which
those unenlightened souls who need CDs can mkisofs an iso image, and
we enlightened others can use the hd.img floppy to install or upgrade
from it.
The only iso image file you should need to make is for the final 7.1
gold release to the CD pressing shop. We quite simply have NO need
of it, and do not understand what you are on about.
Until that time, as I have said before, cooker is to contain the 7.1
frozen hydrogen beta you want us to test - in accordance with Gael
Duval's promise in his beta announcement. It is that simple!
If you wish to work on the i486, sparc, and alpha ports without
disturbing the beta, keep them in-house until they have passed their
alpha tests. The beta test of them will then require additional
separately-named distribution space separate from Cooker. If you
phase their release, then they are different products, which implies
separation.
--
Regards,
Ron. [AU, Mandrake Linux].
