Re: Debian Installer - Call for testing *this week*
ups, I almost forget in the installation GUI my Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 doesn't work... On 10/22/06, Jaime Ochoa Malagón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I finally probe the new installer GUI amd64 and it work great... I probe the installation also in spanish and there is acouple of messages still in english.. . 1 in the partition assistant the description message... when download the packages to install 2 I could read retrieving... 3 in the time zone configuration I robed Mexico and if in english say... Mountain, Central, Pacific and in spanish say something similar... tzconfig have other labels i suppose should be the same... This is not the usual GREAT WORK On 10/17/06, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Please reply to the debian-boot list.) Preparations for Release Candidate 1 of the installer have now really started. All important functional changes are now included in the daily images. In order improve the quality of the release and reduce the number of nasty surprises afterwards, it would be great if we could get some help testing the installer during *this week*. Please make sure you use one of the _daily built_ images available from: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ or http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ and file an installation report with your findings: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug See this wiki page for a general overview of the planned release, including known issues: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/EtchRC1Prep Testing the installer for your favorite architecture(s) === This is the main focus for this call for testing. Please let us know if there are any important issues, especially regressions from previous releases. If you can, try different installation methods. Note that the installer still uses 2.6.17. Main reason is that 2.6.18 is not yet ready to migrate to testing and switching to 2.6.18 would therefore block RC1 of d-i. Depending on the kernel team and RMs, we may still switch to 2.6.18 before RC1, but switching immediately afterwards looks more likely. Other things to test There is a number of other things that could be tested, mostly new functionality that was added recently: - graphical installer, especially whether your mouse and touchpad work correctly - crypto support in partman: the installer now has crypto support both for guided [1] and manual [2] partitioning; thorough tests, including of the actual security of the installed system, very, very welcome - automatic raid partitioning (preseeded only [1]) - 2.6 based installation floppies for i386 - support for non-standard filesystems (i.e. anything other than ext3) - if you speak a language other than English, consider installing in that language; note that one last round of translation updates is still planned, but reports of issues are still appreciated TIA, Frans Pop [1]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#di-partition [2]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#partman-crypto [3]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-partman-raid -- Engañarse por amor es el engaño más terrible; es una pérdida eterna para la que no hay compensación ni en el tiempo ni en la eternidad. Kierkegaard Jaime Ochoa Malagón Integrated Technology Tel: (55) 52 54 26 10 -- Engañarse por amor es el engaño más terrible; es una pérdida eterna para la que no hay compensación ni en el tiempo ni en la eternidad. Kierkegaard Jaime Ochoa Malagón Integrated Technology Tel: (55) 52 54 26 10
Re: Debian Installer - Call for testing *this week*
Hi, I finally probe the new installer GUI amd64 and it work great... I probe the installation also in spanish and there is acouple of messages still in english.. . 1 in the partition assistant the description message... when download the packages to install 2 I could read retrieving... 3 in the time zone configuration I robed Mexico and if in english say... Mountain, Central, Pacific and in spanish say something similar... tzconfig have other labels i suppose should be the same... This is not the usual GREAT WORK On 10/17/06, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Please reply to the debian-boot list.) Preparations for Release Candidate 1 of the installer have now really started. All important functional changes are now included in the daily images. In order improve the quality of the release and reduce the number of nasty surprises afterwards, it would be great if we could get some help testing the installer during *this week*. Please make sure you use one of the _daily built_ images available from: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ or http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ and file an installation report with your findings: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug See this wiki page for a general overview of the planned release, including known issues: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/EtchRC1Prep Testing the installer for your favorite architecture(s) === This is the main focus for this call for testing. Please let us know if there are any important issues, especially regressions from previous releases. If you can, try different installation methods. Note that the installer still uses 2.6.17. Main reason is that 2.6.18 is not yet ready to migrate to testing and switching to 2.6.18 would therefore block RC1 of d-i. Depending on the kernel team and RMs, we may still switch to 2.6.18 before RC1, but switching immediately afterwards looks more likely. Other things to test There is a number of other things that could be tested, mostly new functionality that was added recently: - graphical installer, especially whether your mouse and touchpad work correctly - crypto support in partman: the installer now has crypto support both for guided [1] and manual [2] partitioning; thorough tests, including of the actual security of the installed system, very, very welcome - automatic raid partitioning (preseeded only [1]) - 2.6 based installation floppies for i386 - support for non-standard filesystems (i.e. anything other than ext3) - if you speak a language other than English, consider installing in that language; note that one last round of translation updates is still planned, but reports of issues are still appreciated TIA, Frans Pop [1]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#di-partition [2]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#partman-crypto [3]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-partman-raid -- Engañarse por amor es el engaño más terrible; es una pérdida eterna para la que no hay compensación ni en el tiempo ni en la eternidad. Kierkegaard Jaime Ochoa Malagón Integrated Technology Tel: (55) 52 54 26 10
Re: [D-I] mass kernel udeb update and preparations for RC1
On 9/22/06, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Reply-to set to debian-boot; please only add relevant port if needed.) /me wonders why there have been almost no reactions to this mail The first part is mostly information (though a cool or thanks would be appreciated), but the second part has some issues that need attention. Have D-I porters actually read the mail? Is it useful that I send such mails at all? I read the mail, sorry, I'm not a porter, Of course I must say THANKS I'm a 64 bit user. THANKS. On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:28, Frans Pop wrote: Dear (d-i) porters, First mass upload of kernel udebs = Today I have uploaded kernel udeb updates to 2.6.17-9 _for all arches_. This is the first time using the 'massbuild' [1] script I wrote recently. Effectively this means that d-i porters won't really have to worry anymore about updating kernel udebs after uploads by the kernel team. Only if the kernel major/minor changes will I request porters to do the upload themselves. For stable releases (including ABI changes) I intend to do these mass builds and do the uploads myself. Hopefully this will help the speed with which kernel udebs are updated and allow you all to spend more time testing d-i ;-) Of course porters are still responsible for maintaining which modules will be included for each arch/flavor. If you have changes between kernel major/minor releases you can either commit them and upload, or commit them as UNRELEASED and they will be automatically included in the next mass build. The massbuild script can be used for single-arch builds too. Its main advantage is that kernel images don't need to be installed and the certainty that the correct kernel version will be used. Feel free to contact me to help you get started. Some comments on today's upload: - I have used the last released version of kernel-wedge and will normally do that in the future too - I have not really checked or tested the udebs [2], so there could be some surprises; please be alert for them - m68k: I had to update the dependencies from kernel-image to linux-image The road to RC1 === We are slowly moving towards RC1. I plan to post an initial planning later this week. As we get closer to Etch, testing the installer for all arches gets to be more important. Any time you can spend on that is very much appreciated. There are some issues that need attention: * type of initrd used Some arches have already switched to using initramfs for d-i initrds, other arches are still using cramfs or ext2. Please check if a change could/should be made for your architecture. * 2.4 support now officially dropped Starting with RC1 d-i will no longer support 2.4 based installations. All arches have been switched now and some cleanup has been started; more cleanup is expected and this may cause unexpected breakage. * support for non-devfs device names Colin Watson has committed a series of changes to make d-i support non-devfs device names. We will be slowly moving away from using devfs names, but the most intrusive work will be postponed until after Etch. Please check for unexpected breakage though. * partman-auto using LVM and crypto partman-auto-lvm now has been available for some time, but is still not available for all arches. LVM support is a prerequisite for partman-auto-crypto support which will be uploaded soon. Note: swap on LVM should be possible now and is even required for partman-auto-crypto. If you would like to add support for it, please see [3]. Feel free to contact me or David Härdeman (Alphix) for help. * mips: keyboard issues We've had a report about a dead keyboard on installation (#382983). This needs to be investigated. * powerpc: oldworld boot problems with recent kernels If there are other architecture specific issues that we should be aware of, please let me know. Cheers, FJP [1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/people/fjp/massbuild?op=filerev=0sc=0 [2] The script does have a number of sanity checks though. [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/01/msg01054.html -- Engañarse por amor es el engaño más terrible; es una pérdida eterna para la que no hay compensación ni en el tiempo ni en la eternidad. Kierkegaard Jaime Ochoa Malagón Integrated Technology Tel: (55) 52 54 26 10
