From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sirgazil Subject: Re: Testing the installer Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 18:34:54 -0500 Message-ID: <16f9c1c4117.d406b2d220796.277966992299583807@zoho.com> References: <87o8v8qq59.fsf@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39695) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iqmlB-000704-Ed for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 18:35:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iqml8-0001mv-Vk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2020 18:35:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87o8v8qq59.fsf@inria.fr> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?=22Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s=22?= Cc: guix-devel ---- On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 17:13:54 -0500 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote ---- > Hello Guix! >=20 > One of the lessons from the 1.0.0 screw-up was that we should test the > graphical installer itself: And, if possible, not test only using virtual machines, but real ones, beca= use I remember my installation in a virtual machine went smoothly, but inst= alling in my real machine was rough (network devices not detected, installe= r generated config.scm with truncated UUID, unknown error when trying to re= start installation).