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

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Andrew M.A. Cater writes:

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

[...]

> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.

[...]

> > I'll file an installation report soon.  After that, I guess I'll try  
> > installing Bullseye and file a report on it.
> >
> > 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
>
> - 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.
>
> For testing live CDs - download one or more and try them?

[...]

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:

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
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 :)

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

HTH
Linux-Fan

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  Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 11:50 +0100
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      Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 14:50 +0100
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