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Author: Ismael L. Donis Garcia
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To: devuan developers internal list
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] ASCII 2.1 ISOs almost there
Ralph I have reviewed the site https://borta.rrq.id.au and it is empty. Is
this temporary? or have you moved it to another site?

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Ismael
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Ronnquist (rrq)" <ralph.ronnquist@???>
To: "devuan-dev" <devuan-dev@???>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2019 7:17 PM
Subject: [devuan-dev] ASCII 2.1 ISOs almost there


>
> Hi there:
>
> please note that the amd64 and i386 ISO sets for ASCII 2.1 are almost
> there, and as they are prepared through a new and different production
> process, they need an additional review. Please go to
> https://borta.rrq.id.au to download.
>
> The three bootable ISO variants (netinst, cd1 and dvd1) all supposedly
> have four different kinds of bootstrap options:
> 1) bios (legacy) boot via isolinux
> 2) CD rom boot via isolinux
> 3) UEFI boot via grub
> 4) win32 boot (not sure what this is)
>
> The first three have been tested on virtual hardware, and have the "it
> works for me"(tm) tick. It'd be really good to get them tried on a
> range of bare-metal set ups as well. And it'd also bee good if someone
> can exercise and tick off the 4th boot option.
>
> When it boots, it offers (or should offer) a small range of immediate
> boot choices, including in particular either a "gtk" based or a text
> console based (dialog) installation process. There are also speech
> enabled variants, etc.
>
> All the variants should work more or less in the same way as to the
> installation procedure, so please try them all, and make note of
> pecularities. In particular about missing or superfluous packages.
>
> The documentation in the /docs tree is not up to date.
>
> Note that the installation procedure is programmed in the particular
> ASCII 2.1 "udeb" packages involved, and as such it might flow
> differently from how it did before on ASCII 2.0.0 and jessie
> installers. It's still good to make notes and report about any
> pecularities, though there is a farily high barrier to change; the
> notes will rather be captured and tended to for the upcoming beowulf
> 3.0 installers.
>
> Thus: download at https://borta.rrq.id.au to do some test runs, and
> report back. The final/public drop of ASCII 2.1 ISO sets for amd64 and
> i386 is planned to be done late next week.
>
> regards,
>
> Ralph.
>
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