GoodDay Mates, network connectivity dropping during package download is still there, it is a major problem, sometimes it works, sometimes not, this used to work very well.
it will especially annoy new users, so this issue need to be debugged & fixed! will also write to SpaceX about it (if it has anything to do with their setup) the free version iso seems to have have a network problem during package download: (after software selection) https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=149974&p=743218#p743218 <https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=149974&p=743218#p743218> trying non-free now. tried yesterday and today installing https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cu ... 64/iso-cd/ <https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/> on Lenovo t440 and the problem is still there... this time it downloaded 1388 packages of 1491 before grinding to a halt... * after software selection (wanted to try the KDE Desktop, being big MATE fan for it's simplicity) from the default debian package mirror https://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ <https://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/> it just stops downloading packages after ~100 packages (loses connectivity) and stays there until timeout[/list] * downloading isos via wget from just works fine best regards On 8/19/21 5:25 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:42 AM admin4 wrote: > >> is there a Debian "testing" team? > That is composed of everyone who uses Debian and especially those who > decide to report an issue they found. > >> that does test setups of Debian ISOs on a bunch of different hardware with >> priority on the most used CPUs like amd64 and i386, (free and non-free >> versions)), > The Debian CD team do installation testing of each new Debian release > and each new Debian point release. They don't do things like download > RSS feeds or try to use less/vi in the installer though, they just > follow the installer prompts. > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting > >> 1) ask the user if everything works fine (rating from 1 to 5 stars) >> >> and user can add a comment ( send some praise or comments what does/did not >> work ) > I don't think that Debian has enough people to monitor these, we have > enough bug reports and mailing list/forum posts to keep up with as it > is. > >> 2) scan the hardware specs of the system > There is a shared cross-distro hardware database: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Database > https://linux-hardware.org/ > https://bsd-hardware.org/ > > Unfortunately the script used to upload to the database, called > hw-probe, isn't yet integrated into the Debian installer nor the > Debian live installer (calamares). > > https://bugs.debian.org/964853 > https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1454 > >> anonymized! without any serials and mac addresses or ip addresses or screen >> resolutions!, before uploading it to debian.org/hardware-compatibility-list > The above hardware database uses truncated salted hashes of some > hardware identifiers, in order to aggregate repeat uploads of hardware > probes of the same computer. > > https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues#Data_sharing > https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe#privacy > >> where the hardware is marked in green (works) orange (can be made to work >> with this (link) workaround) or red (fails, no fix available currently) > There isn't any way to automatically check if hardware works, you > would need the user to check each item of hardware, make sure they did > the check correctly and only then report it working correctly. We > could create a Debian Live distro for hardware > testing/compatibility/reporting/certification, but no-one has done > that yet, although there was an idea and discussion at DebConf to do > something similar some years ago. > > http://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Certification > > There is a corner of our wiki where Debian users can report their > experience with installing Debian, as well as the option to file > installation reports, which feed back to the installer team. > > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn > -- mit freundlichem Gruß / best regards https://www.dwaves.de - enact the web connect the people
