Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

[Linux-Fan]

Andrew M.A. Cater writes:

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 07:06:45AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, at 3:48 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

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> > If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware that you can press into service > > that

> > isn't being used: pick up a Debian i386 disk and try reinstalling Debian.
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> > If you have "real" 686 32 bit hardware - get a copy of a Debian live CD > > and boot it - you may face probelms if there isn't a lot of memory.

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> I'll file an installation report soon. After that, I guess I'll try > installing Bullseye and file a report on it.

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> Does anybody know if there's an i386 Live DVD for Bullseye?

Well, that's a good start :) The test suite we used to test for stable release CDs is here: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Buster_r7?highlight= %28testing%29%7C%28cd%29%7C%2810.7%29

For testing live CDs - download one or more and try them?

- as you can see, we try and exercise as many paths through the standard Debian installer as we can. Just knowing that there are people out there who could help us test some more installs on real hardware helps. You can always do these on KVM / virtual machines of some sort on AMD64 hardware but it doesn't exercise real hardware. The text-speech installs for visually impaired folk are always tested on real hardware but more tests are always welcome - as would be any comment on anything that's unreasonable on low memory. Debian live CDs are not put out by the image creation team but by the debian- live team: I suspect they'll be there before Bullseye main release.

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1105a debian-live-10.7.0-i386-lxde.iso BIOS Install from DI (Simple disk: 
single fs EXT4 Network enabled)
1105a debian-live-10.7.0-i386-lxde.iso BIOS Start Live Image




[1] https://masysma.lima-city.de/37/debian_i386_installation_reports.xhtml

HTH
Linux-Fan

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I tried to do a few tests for live CDs and the contained installers. Additionally, I tried the new Bullseye-Alpha3-Installer. I can report that except for the "Calamares" installer which did not want to run on a 512 MiB system, all of the tests I did, worked. As far as I can tell, the corresponding Wiki-lines that would get a "PASSED" from me are these: 1106a debian-live-10.7.0-i386-standard.iso BIOS Install from DI (Simple disk: single fs EXT4 Network enabled) The more detailed report is currently at [1]. Is it OK for me to just fill- in the three lines above in the Wiki? It looks like the page is mostly used by experienced Debian contributors (and I do not even have a Debian Wiki account yet...)? Does a similar page exist for the Bullseye installer? Or am I on the wrong track and installation reports should go to an entirely different location? It is to be noted, that live GUI systems are _extremly_ slow on my i386 machines. Even LXDE which I thought to use the lowest ressources from the Debian live systems available cannot help speeding up heavy applications like Firefox -- it takes literally minutes to open Firefx and process the URL given as parameter. Xterm runs well, though :)

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