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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

Hi,

I finally got around to testing the test5 iso. I don't go through the 
partitioning parts since my drive is already partitioned. Here are my 
notes and questions for general comment. Disclaimer, I apologise if I 
bring up anything that has been discussed int eh past and I missed.

1. When I optimize architecture it goes to the sorcery menu. Should this 
be this way? I am worried that it'll confuse new installers. If it 
should be this way then maybe it should be renamed to something else.

2. Should the log system default to "syslog" or "none"? Should we decide 
what log system someone should have when a log system isn't necessary.

3. Grub still has some problmes for me. It happened a few iso's ago, 
then dissapeared, then reappeared in test5 (it wasn't in test4). When I 
choose grub and the MBR, this is what it gives:

spell grub is already installed
/usr/sbin/smgl.install line 156: 15865 Broken pipe chroot "${TARGET}" "$@"
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.

I generally give up after a couple of minutes and CTRL-C. Then later in 
the install I choose to reconfigure grub and it goes through fine.

Not sure what's happening here.

4. Set udev and root password might want to be separated into separate 
menus, it's like miscelaneous jobs.

Other than that I think apart from a few niggles I think our iso 
installer is getting very slick. Well done on your work and the 
improvements, there were many I noticed.

I've been wondering about a quick install, followed by a reboot and 
setup stage. For example, for the quic install you might want to 
partition, mount, copy over the base system, linux and optional 
programs, configure services and choose the bootloader. Then reboot and 
run a setup stage. I'm just pondering this, I noticed you can just about 
do this with test5 now that you don't have to choose your timezone in 
order to install the base system. I might try it out.

Thanks, Duane

Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> Andrew a écrit :
>
> > > x86 and x86-64 have been sucessfully used to install a bootable 
> > > system where "sorcery rebuild" has been done twice SUCESSFULLY! 
> > > Thanks Seth for the work done on the stable grimoire
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the short turn-around and testing!
>
>
> I'd like to remind everybody that the very purpose of releasing test ISO 
> is to let people test them, so GO TEST THEM AND REPORT. I'm willing to 
> add test report in the ChangeLog (it's on the wiki, so can be edited 
> anyone). BTW, I just posted the release changelog on the wiki. I'm going 
> to review ISO bugs to update them if applicable.
>
> > > Please, can someone add "0.9.4-test5" in the Version field of our
> > > bugzilla database?
> >
> >
> > Done.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru
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