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  • From: Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>
  • To: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>
  • Cc: Source Mage - Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO 0.9.4-test5 x86/ppc/x86-64 are out
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:32:20 +1200

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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