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On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 08:59, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 07:06, Kevin wrote: |
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> > I've now tried a stage 3 installation booting the 2.6.1 SMP kernel from a |
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> > 2004.0 LiveCD (the SMP configs on 2004.1 LiveCDs are all broken---see bug |
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> > #49382). |
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> Linky for the lazy: |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49382 |
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> Comment #5 made me pretty upset. This guy paid money for our CD set and |
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> it doesn't work. This is definitely a very big black eye for Gentoo as |
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> a whole. Our installation media is the first experience people will |
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> have with Gentoo. With that being said, I am going to make sure that I |
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> help out in any way possible to help test the 2004.2 x86 (and amd64) |
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> LiveCD's. I have 4 different (p3, athlon-mp, xeon, opteron) SMP |
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> machines and can test several configurations with them (scsi, scsi raid, |
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> ide). I also have a laptop, so I can test PCMCIA. |
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> I'm sending this to let everybody know. If you need my help, please |
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> ask. I will gladly help test. After all, how can I recommend Gentoo to |
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> people if our installation media is b0rked? |
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> Thanks you for listening to my little spiel and have a great day. |
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Chris - |
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Thank you for your time in advance :) Testing is the most important |
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thing that we can do, and it shows when we do not get enough test time |
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in. |
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To accomodate the testing that we need, I may readjust the schedule to |
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give us 1.5 months (if possible) for testing. GRP and stages don't |
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really need any testing, so they can be built ~2.5 weeks before the |
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release date. LiveCDs on the other hand, need time to test. If the dates |
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work out, I will shuffle things around. Expect everything to be |
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finalized after the Monday manager's meeting. |
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Cheers, |
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John Davis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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