On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 14:56 -0400, pmkellly(a)frontier.com wrote:
On 9/21/18 1:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 22:35 -0400, Harold Dost wrote:
> > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome?
>
> Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive and media
> around any more. It takes like a half hour just to write all the media
> for testing, then another few hours to run complete installs from them
> all (since optical media are *slow*).
>
> If it's not burdensome, why does no-one except the paid RH folks ever
> seem to run the test? And usually at the last minute, at that?
>
> I've had to buy three DVD-RW drives *solely for the purpose of being
> able to test this* (they keep dying, the things aren't terribly
> reliable). And I keep a spindle of media around, again, solely for the
> purpose of testing this, I don't use them for anything else. (In fact
> I've nearly run out, so if we keep this criteria, I'm gonna have to go
> out and blow some money on some more media I won't ever use for
> anything but testing this).
>
> If people outside of the RH team ever actually ran this test, I'd be
> more in favour of keeping it, but I don't think any of the people
> speaking up about how vital this is to them have ever actually chipped
> in and run the test before.
>
Well, I know I'm an exception, I only test workstation live, I don't
test every drop, and I know that no one is requiring me to, but I
actually spend money on DVD media to help out with testing. Yes, I know
that someday DVDs will go away and I'll have to figure out this network
install thing, but for right now I use them because it's what I'm
comfortable doing.
Thanks for that.
BTW does doing network install mean I have to have a server setup to
serve the installs?
I am not sure what you mean by 'network install' exactly. If you mean
PXE stuff, you don't need to know that to replace DVDs. You can just
replace DVDs with a USB stick.
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