[PLUG] Fwd: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3 release

Praveen A pravi.a at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 18:51:18 IST 2012


2012/10/21 "Arun Khan (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान)" <knura9 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> How about we do a debian installer test day?
>
> The last weekly build that I have tried 20/Aug/2012 fails to install
> grub at the very end.    Has this been fixed?

Possibly, I didn't get to test it yet.

>> We have to download the
>> new images and try it out on as many different hardware as possible.
>
> A link would be helpful.

It was there in the original forward.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer

>> We can also try installer in different languages in virtual machines.
>
> Nice idea.   I usually do a quick eval of new releases in a LKVM guest OS>

good.

>> Those who don't want to touch their existing installations can install
>> it on a USB external disk.
>
> Again a very good idea.  I have been doing the above for a few distros
> to eval them on the real hardware.

nice.

>>  If there is some interest lets meet at some
>> place and do it together. The more people join, the more fun we can
>> have.
>
> I am Mumbai based - so I would appreciate if you can share the
> experiences in a blog/ article/ or a post to this list.

There wasn't much interest from others. I will try it and share how it goes.
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