Bug#434034: debian-installer: need an option of memtest86+ on the install CD

2007-07-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 21 July 2007 22:12, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The trick of course will be how to get users to actually use the option... The people who want it will notice that it's there and cease using Fedora CDs. The rest won't use it no matter what you do. > Note that we only very

Bug#434034: debian-installer: need an option of memtest86+ on the install CD

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 13:29, Russell Coker wrote: > I advocate doing what is done in Fedora, you get a boot prompt from the > CD and then you can type "memtest" and press ENTER if you want to test > the memory. OK. I'm aware of how to run memtest. It was not clear from your report if you maybe

Bug#434034: debian-installer: need an option of memtest86+ on the install CD

2007-07-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 21 July 2007 20:13, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 21 July 2007 05:50, Russell Coker wrote: > > It's recommended that you run memtest before installing a machine to > > ensure that it will work well. > > Exactly who should run memtest? The user (manually) or the inst

Bug#434034: debian-installer: need an option of memtest86+ on the install CD

2007-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 July 2007 05:50, Russell Coker wrote: > It's recommended that you run memtest before installing a machine to > ensure that it will work well. Exactly who should run memtest? The user (manually) or the installer (automatically, by default)? If the last, how exactly should it be run

Bug#434034: debian-installer: need an option of memtest86+ on the install CD

2007-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
Package: debian-installer Version: Severity: normal Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux have had memtest86+ on the install CD for ages. It's recommended that you run memtest before installing a machine to ensure that it will work well (and it reduces the number of bogus bug reports for the devel