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beejay
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 Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 9:14 pm Post subject: 2004.0 1st Live-CD -- Testers needed |
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The upcoming release of Gentoo-Linux 2004.0 needs testers as soon as possible. The following parts have to be tested:
+ The Live-CD and installing via Live-CD
+ The stages and installation from those
+ stage3 + GRP Installation
If you want to contribute and have the appropriate ressources on your system to test an installation, then we need you as a tester.
We need regular users as well as professionals to get bugs and eventual obscurities eleminated. If you find a bug or experience any obscurities, please create a bug on https://bugs.gentoo.org. As product choose "Gentoo LiveCD (all flavors)".
The stages are already downloadable on
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/stages/ for x86 and
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/ppc/stages/ for ppc.
The Live-CD Images :
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/livecd/
If you post a bug on bugzilla, please send an e-mail to beejay@gentoo.org and seemant@gentoo.org including the Bug-ID and a small description. We appreciate any help we can get from you. Please search if the bug is already known (a list of known Bugs for this release is available here : http://dev.gentoo.org/~beejay/xml/buglist.html )
Thanks in advance,
Benjamin "beejay" Judas
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Achilles
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| Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Cool, I'll try it out. Is 2004.0 going to be the next gentoo release? |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:58 am Post subject: |
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I',m up for giving it a go too, always happy to give something back 
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gen2newB
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| i am willing to test 2004.0 out. I have plenty of hard drive space to do it with. I can even test it using a remote install if you guys so wish. |
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stonent
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How is this different from the current livecd? I haven't heard of this project yet. Unless it is just the a more current livecd that you are making.
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beejay
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:26 am Post subject: |
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| gen2newB wrote: | | i am willing to test 2004.0 out. I have plenty of hard drive space to do it with. I can even test it using a remote install if you guys so wish. |
Test everything you can test. As I alredy said in my post, we want to eleminate as much bugs as possible. We really appreciate it. 
| stonent wrote: | | How is this different from the current livecd? I haven't head of this project yet. Unless it is just the current livecd that you are making. |
There are no major changes at the moment, but it's the first step onto Gentoo 2004, the next major release. 
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ian!
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Made this one sticky.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:16 am Post subject: |
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pYrania
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I'll test those on four different boxes.
Pentium 1
AMD K6-II
AMD Thunderbird
Pentium4-M
probably another test on AMD XP, if i have the time.
Testing will include GRP and stage1 installations.
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etnoy
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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Hope I can spare a box to test on
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gen2newB
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I have an Athlon XP, so i can test for that. Also, i am no stranger to remote installations, so i could test that too. |
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mukwuknuk
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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OK, since I can't get normal, "production" gentoo to install on my machine, I might just as well try the Experimental version.
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Ben2040
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
I've got an Athlon Thunderbird, that needs warming up, so count me in too.
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irf2003
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beejay, are there any docs about what is new in gentoo 2004?
is the install procedure the same as in gentoo 1.4?
when will the live cd be forthcomming.
please count me in for a stage 2 "~arch" install, PIV, SATA, SMP
seasons greetings |
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| irf2003 wrote: | beejay, are there any docs about what is new in gentoo 2004?
is the install procedure the same as in gentoo 1.4?
when will the live cd be forthcomming.
please count me in for a stage 2 "~arch" install, PIV, SATA, SMP
seasons greetings |
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Roderik
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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ooh yeah, just reinstalled my linux box last week
as soon as the livecd is done i'll take it for another spin
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gen2newB
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| anyone know if we need to sign up or anything? And when will we be getting copies to test from? |
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irf2003
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| gen2newB wrote: | | anyone know if we need to sign up or anything? And when will we be getting copies to test from? |
LOL, this ain't mi$oooooooooft, you just do it, and report
any bugs at https://bugs.gentoo.org
Season's greetings |
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gen2newB
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| ok, then for my second question. where can i download it? |
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taskara
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:36 am Post subject: |
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well from stage1 (stage1-x86-20031228.tar.bz2) after extracting and chrooting, I can't run env-update, it gives an error.
but I ignored and kept going - make.conf by default is the wrong one, had to move make.conf.orig to make.conf and edit that one.
only just found this post so sorry I can't post actual errors etc..
I'm bootstrapping now on p4.
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| gen2newB wrote: | | ok, then for my second question. where can i download it? |
See the opening post. It gives links to a new version of the archive that you're supposed to extract onto your linux partition after you've formatted it. An iso of a bootable CD is probably coming soon. |
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mukwuknuk
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I volunteered because I thought my vast inexperience would be a big advantage as a tester, but now I'm not so sure, ...I'm feeling far too clueless to help out.
When I look at the tarballs, what does it mean when some of the files have "-etdyn-ssp-" in their names? e.g.:
stage1-x86-etdyn-ssp-20031008.tar.bz2
And what are the files that end in *.md5?
And where is the "live" CD? I *have* downloaded, burned and booted a live Gentoo CD before, but where is the image to do this?
I'm still willing to test if someone can give me some guidance. Sorry to be so ignorant.
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| mukwuknuk wrote: | I volunteered because I thought my vast inexperience would be a big advantage as a tester, but now I'm not so sure, ...I'm feeling far too clueless to help out.
When I look at the tarballs, what does it mean when some of the files have "-etdyn-ssp-" in their names? e.g.:
stage1-x86-etdyn-ssp-20031008.tar.bz2
And what are the files that end in *.md5?
And where is the "live" CD? I *have* downloaded, burned and booted a live Gentoo CD before, but where is the image to do this?
I'm still willing to test if someone can give me some guidance. Sorry to be so ignorant. |
if you are not familiar with gentoo then it may be hard for you to help bug test, because you will prob run into all sorts of problems through not doing things correctly and think they are bugs.
just a thought.
still you won't have a livecd to download yet - just use any livecd - what we are wanting to test is the new stages.
md5 are the checksums for the download that you can run to make sure they are not corrupt.
what you are probably wanting is teh standard stage1 x86 tarball, which is stage1-x86-20031228.tar.bz2 I think.
good luck
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| taskara wrote: | if you are not familiar with gentoo then it may be hard for you to help bug test, because you will prob run into all sorts of problems through not doing things correctly and think they are bugs.
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Quite possible, and I haven't made up my mind whether to help test yet (sounds like I'm being picky -- but really I'm evaluating whether I would be a help or a hindrance).
However, one could look at this the other way: an experienced Gentoo user would quickly skip over common problems that he/she was familiar with, knowing the workaround without thinking about it, while an inexperienced tester would flag those challenges as bugs because they *ARE* bugs, ...albiet well-known, easily overcome bugs. Just a thought.
Thanks for the info.
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| mukwuknuk wrote: | | I volunteered because I thought my vast inexperience would be a big advantage as a tester, but now I'm not so sure, ...I'm feeling far too clueless to help out. |
Hey, didn't you read my original post - everybody is welcome !
| mukwuknuk wrote: | When I look at the tarballs, what does it mean when some of the files have "-etdyn-ssp-" in their names? e.g.:
stage1-x86-etdyn-ssp-20031008.tar.bz2 |
These are SE-Linux-Stages - they aren't of any interest for us now
| mukwuknuk wrote: | | And what are the files that end in *.md5? |
These are the checksums - with these you can quickly check that the file you downloaded isn't broken or in another way different to what's on the server
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