Installation report - Debian-live standard failed (WAS Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again)

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 03:13:47PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Hey again,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 03:36:53PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >>
> >>As you can see, this affects many teams:
> >>* live-setup: a MR to generate all live images for Bookworm [A2]
> 
> So, *builds* work fine but I've not *yet* tested actually
> booting/using one of these images in any way. I've just triggered a
> full build of "testing" live images now, please help test if you can
> once they're in place at [2] in a couple of hours from now.
> 

VERY impressed with the array of install options immediately presented
including text install, text with speech synthesis etc.

Debian-live standard .iso - the text mode one with no GUI - failed at
an early step because no kernel modules were detected.

Continuing, predictably it failed as per warnings because no network
device could be decected.

> [1] "yay" for the long-standing tradition of services failing as we
>     get close to a release: this time it was casulana and salsa...
> [2] https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/
> 

At least this time it wasn't buildings burning down ... and they were very
quick to get this sorted. Kudos to the admins and all involved.

All best,

Andy Cater

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> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                [email protected]
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>  as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead
>