On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 02:02, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Monday 31 March 2003 01:31 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > > > > > But the installer has to be reasonably finished before the rc phase > starts. > > In my opinion, far too many features were being actively developed > during the > > beta period: for example: mdkkdm, installer, mcc, galaxy and there are > > others. All of those things should have been pretty close to done for > the > > first beta. There were major changes to all of them between beta3 and > rc1. > > But none of them affect the kernel. So, if users know that > 1)The installer may have issues > 2)They should not intend using the machine for production > > then they may have the freedom to report that the installer does not > detect their devices, and then the kernel team has an earlier warning on > devices that are not working. > > Also, only one CD would be necessary, it could even be a small ISO, just > enough to get a minimal system and urpmi, so users can urpmi cooker > afterwards. > > Buchan
Buchan, This one has some definite merit. Small iso installed to it's own partition. Doing the install over and over to check it out. Though it might be too much of a load on the buildmaster. James
