On Oct 31, 2003, at 5:56 AM, James J. Ramsey wrote:
--- "Mike A. Harris" mharris@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Marcus White wrote:
There are internally, although I don't know if they were made publically available or not. I believe there would be high value in making them publically available though for some external final testing, but I'm not sure what the official plan is.
mkj: Any chance we can push the latest test ISOs out for people to do final/semi-final testing?
I'd see some value in having a further set of test ISOs. I have a ye olde CD-ROM that doesn't like DMA, so I'd be a good guinea pig for testing whether the BOOT kernel *really* only enabled DMA for hard drives. This was in the kernel changelog:
- Fri Oct 10 2003 Dave Jones davej@redhat.com
- Only enable DMA on hard disks in the BOOT kernel.
However, I still needed to pass ide=nodma to the boot prompt to get Fedora test3 to install, so apparently either that change didn't make it to the test3 kernel, or the attempted change didn't work.
I also agree that some final test .iso's would be a good idea (or even a net/ftp install), if only to test anaconda. There have been show-stopping bugs in the last two releases of anaconda, but since anaconda is not used for anything other than the install, they have not been caught until the actual .isos were posted.
-Sean