Release of 0.10.0-test1 ISO
Justin “flux_control” Boffemmyer has released version 0.10.0-test1 of the next-generation ISO for Source Mage.
On his post to the mailinglist:
I finally got all the bits working that are absolutely necessary for this release. I’m sure that there will still be plenty of bugs, but I will need you guys to test the ISO to find them. Then I will squash them. With extreme prejudice. Like, with a rock or something.
The release will most likely happen this evening (EDT). However, I have things to clean up, and I will be trying to minimize the size of the ISO as well, before releasing. Therefore, it’s possible that something will come up (like RL) and I will release tomorrow night, but most likely it will happen tonight. You may now all grip the edges of your seats.
Summary of major changes in this ISO:
- Use of udev in the ISO’s bootup initrd (autodetect hardware and autoload modules for it). Watch out for this, as it’s possible that the ISO will detect your hardware and load modules for it, but the installed kernel might not (we don’t install an initrd for you, at least not yet). I tried to ensure that this would not be the case, but I cannot be certain. Please test using the ISO kernel and make sure that it boots. If you are looking to just have a working system from this and aren’t interested in helping to test the ISO, then I would just recommend (as always) to build a new, fresh kernel for your system rather than relying on the one provided on the ISO. This can be done during the install phase itself (i.e. from within the ISO) by chrooting into /mnt/root (you can just run our chroot script smgl-chroot) and going into /usr/src, unpacking the linux sources (bunzip2 linux-2.6.22.tar.bz2), creating a symlink (ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.22 /usr/src/linux), and then issuing the regular kernel make command series (e.g., make menuconfig && make && make modules && make modules_install).
- The ISO kernel is more modular. I’m hoping that this will resolve bug #14495. I need people with corresponding hardware to test this though.
- ncurses is now most definitely built with utf-8 enabled, both for the ISO and for the system tarball.
- The linux kernel sources are now included in the system tarball, so it should be possible to build a new kernel and/or different kernel modules even if you are having trouble getting a network connection. This should resolve bug #14405.
- Various other bugfixes that are more minor/superficial.
For all bug-hunting, please file bugs against 0.10.0 in the bugzilla database (http://bugs.sourcemage.org). It’s really much more helpful to me if all the bugs are in the same place rather than having to hunt them down via scattered emails or IRC logs. Thanks! :-D
If there are any questions/concerns/problems, I’ll be around in IRC as usual, or you can email me of course.
On the mailinglist, the Release of 0.10.0-test1 thread has gotten quite some feedback, and another thread, install iso 0.10.0-test1 tested has gotten some more feedback for Justin in regards to the ISO.