Draft 'install alongside Windows' test case

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 20:45 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 8:08:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Hey, folks. I just threw together a quick draft of an 'install alongside
> > Windows' test case - we have this as a final criterion, but no test case
> > for it as of yet. Here's the draft:
> 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_install_alongside_Windows
> 
> > any comments, questions, suggestions welcome! thanks.
> 
> I  think that you need to be specific as to what you mean by "Windows"
> - especially given the different behaviours with GPT and MBR.

Well, no version of Windows yet sets up a GPT disk label, and anaconda
is supposed to leave existing MSDOS disk labels around.

> There need to be tests (with release blocking on fails for):
> * XP 32-bit (both FAT and NTFS)
> * Vista (32 & 64-bit)
> * Windows 7 (32  &  64-bit)
> * Windows 8 preview (32 & 64-bit)

Remember, the tests go into a matrix which has both 32-bit and 64-bit
columns, so there's no need to have different tests.

I'm not sure it's realistic to list separate test cases for every
version of Windows known to man; I left it generic on purpose so that
people can test with whatever Windows they happen to own. The version of
Windows that's present shouldn't ever make an awful lot of difference,
anyway, since Fedora doesn't have to *do* anything with it besides
identify it. Ditto FAT vs. NTFS: we're intentionally *not* covering
partition resizing here, as it's not supported. About the only issue
would be ensuring os-prober can recognize all Windows variants.

> I  would  suggest  that  you  also  want to test against a DOS variant
> (especially FreeDOS since it is FOS).

This isn't in the scope of the release criteria, and I don't think it
really needs to be. We're concerned with the common case of 'I want to
install Fedora alongside Windows'. Installing alongside DOS is pretty
corner case-y these days.
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