FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Bootable Test CD

["scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Nicholas,
>
> 2008/3/27, Nicholas Blachford <nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > How about doing an "early release pre-Alpha test CD" but not
> >  advertising it.
> >  The people most interested will probably know from this list that it's
> >  there and can try it out if they want.
> >
> >  I hope to have a new laptop soon and I'd like to try it myself.
> >  I've used plenty of Alphas before so I know exactly what it is...
>
> I like that idea. I actually thought a lot of doing something like
> this: I hope to assemble a Haiku alpha 1 testing pool of a group of
> 5-10 volunteers that will be testing diverse aspects of alpha 1 on
> their machines. Since the priorities at this moment are the booting
> from the CD, installing and partitioning (almost in that order), I
> hope to be able to intensively test that for 2-3 weeks, while
> continually giving feedback to the devs which should in theory make
> for a good testing experience.
>
> Anyway, that's for when some of my other projects wrap up. Unless
> someone wants to try to plan that with me.
>
> N.
>
>


Count me in.  Not that I'm not already testing Haiku on whatever systems I
can get my hands on and reporting bugs as I find them.
What might be helpful is to put together a general list of debugging tips,
such as:

1) Serial debugging setup
2) using listdev from a terminal on systems that do boot all the way up but
have one or more devices not working.
3) using lshw from a ubuntu live cd terminal window for those systems that
don't boot up to get a list of devices.
4) lots more tips....

If you'd like we can use the bedrivers.com forum to discuss this offline, I
set up a topic for it a few months ago:
http://bedrivers.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=52044ab9acce7289a60b117df78ebe4a
If anyone has more testing tips feel free to add them there.

-scottmc