Alpha 1 - Manifest?

[Brendan Donegan]

On 01/06/12 19:07, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Brendan,
>
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 02:25:15PM +0100, Brendan Donegan wrote:
>> On 01/06/12 14:21, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>>> Do we know when we'll be dropping the alt installer images? Heck, I'd
>>> love to just have multi-arch so the i386/x64 can also be the same disc..
>>> A guy can dream :-)
>> In Hardware Certification we have at least some systems which are
>> only installable and therefore certifiable with the alternate image.
>> Perhaps this shouldn't be the case, but it's worth taking into
>> account before thinking about dropping the image.
> In order to take this into account, we would need more information about the
> issues that prevent these systems from being certified with the desktop
> image.  Do you have a list of these somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
We had this issue which prevented us from PxE installing some systems:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/553609

This would not stop the systems being certified but would give us a 
major headache. Daniel (cc'ed) can confirm that we do *not* see any 
issues like this in Precise. As it stands we wouldn't be directly 
impacted by the removal of the alternate image. It would be nice to have 
some confidence though that any issues like this encountered going 
forward will be fixed, even if they don't directly impact certification 
or the 'standard' user experience.

Thanks,