On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:01 PM, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 > > i can't download image, why? any can help me