[Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Alpha Test Compose 2 (TC2) Available Now!

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 14:24 +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 03/26/2013 04:17 AM, Andre Robatino wrote:
> > *IMPORTANT*: All DVDs and Lives are oversized, so will not fit on the
> > standard media.
> 
> To save others wasted time, please note that TC2 is not installable on bare metal:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928228
> 
> Also when installing to a VM, 1G is not enough RAM at least,
> and will result in tending towards infinite CPU spin in anaconda/loop2/loop3
> when one clicks the "install to hard drive" icon.

Note this is not enough detail. RAM use depends heavily on installed
package set and VM configuration at least. It's not possible to declare
that it Always Fails With Less Than X and Always Works With More Than X.
I generally find 2GB is a good baseline for Alpha testing, though (Alpha
always uses more RAM due to the debugging kernel).

> As aid to people quickly scanning email, please markup URLs
> so they're clickable, like:
> 
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/
> https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/ (mirror (1 hour lag))

This isn't a bug, it's a feature ;) We intentionally don't provide
easily-clickable download locations in the announcement email to try and
ensure only people who are at least committed enough to click on (and
hopefully read) the testing instructions page download the images. We
don't want TC and RC images in the hands of drive-by downloaders, that
isn't what they're for; we structure the pages and announcements to try
and gently encourage this.
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