Hello! On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin <gaud...@debian.org> wrote:
> Please keep the CC to the debian-boot@lists.debian.org mailinglist. This > is the mailinglist for debian-installer development. Will keep that in mind. >> > If you all apply for the same project I might give >> > you a small taks to evaluate you applications after the application >> > deadline. >> >> I'm sorry, but I am not sure I really understand what you mean by >> that. > > I meant that I might give all of you a small task to evaluate your > skills. If you look at the timeline[1] you will see that there is a 2 > weeks period in April where mentoring organizations review and rank > student proposals. Is it more clear now? Yes, now it is clear. > The easiest way to test modifications is to build a test image of the > installer and to run that in a virtual machine. The process of building > images is explained in the d-i internals manual [2]. The Debian Wiki > also contains some information[3][4]. > > For wireless testing I used KVM with libvirt and virt-manager. There you > can configure your virtual machine so that KVM passes through your > wireless device with PCI passthrough. For this to work you need a > computer with Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU CPU extensions. The Fedora > Documentation about Virtualization has more details about how to > configure this [5]. This is equally applicable to Debian. Thank you very much for the info, it is really useful. Sorina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+qfqp8j9gszyw9f64bnnjpsc1fvuoum5rnb7dboo2dy-a5...@mail.gmail.com
