[haiku-development] Re: Preliminary R1/Alpha 2 images available for limited testing.

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 17:51:43 +0200

On 2010-05-09 at 17:42:11 [+0200], Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > So far I've not encountered any serious problems with the images. So we 
> > only
> > need to update the archives with the current release notes, but not 
> > rebuild
> > the images.  I can do that, if Matt is AFK.
> 
> Let me know when you've done so, and I'll start grabbing all the
> images here locally.

OK, will build the archives in a few minutes.

> Also, I'm a little bit out of the loop on what files we plan to link
> to for downloads from each mirror. I assume we're still going for the
> .zips primarily - are we going to add "anyboot" along with iso, vm,
> and raw images? Should we just remove "Raw", and offer "Anyboot" in
> its place as a preference?

Yep.

> For reference: http://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku
> 
> Depending on the answer, I may have to rework the download page a
> little more than I anticipated :/
> 
> I also assume we don't intend to push the source ISO as strongly as
> the regular one... but we can keep it on the mirrors for those who are
> interested.

Agreed.


On 2010-05-09 at 17:45:08 [+0200], Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > I haven't tested the ISO w/o sources or the raw image on CD respectively
> > disk. I actually don't see much reason to distribute them at all as the
> > anyboot image serves both purposes. Well, the ISO may be a bit faster.
> > Opinions?
> 
> There could be people who run into issues with Anyboot not properly
> writing with their burning software... otherwise I haven't personally
> tested it, so I can't comment any further :/

OK, good point. Then let's keep the ISO, but drop raw in favor of anyboot.

CU, Ingo

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