BUG DISTRO

[ermanno morelli]

Good morning. I've been trying to install your DISTRO -
debian-testing-amd64-netinst for weeks which has a big BUG; KERNEL
MISSING. But don't you test your work? At this point if you can't solve
the problem, stop distributing distros that don't work on the net.
You're wasting people's time

[Philip Hands]

Post by ermanno morelli
Good morning. I've been trying to install your DISTRO -
debian-testing-amd64-netinst for weeks which has a big BUG; KERNEL

^^^^^^^

You should note that the version you grabbed is the one we're currently
testing.

Post by ermanno morelli
MISSING. But don't you test your work?

Well, of course we do. e.g.:

https://openqa.debian.net/tests/overview?result=failed&result=incomplete&result=timeout_exceeded&distri=debian&version=testing&build=20241205_1620-testing-amd64&groupid=10

As you've discovered, it is currently broken, as reported here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1088605

Post by ermanno morelli
the problem, stop distributing distros that don't work on the net.
You're wasting people's time

Given that we're a world-wide volunteer effort, if we didn't distribute
test images on the Internet, it's not obvious how they could ever get tested
(there's no corporate headquarters, nor an in-house test team).

The stable release however has survived rather a lot of testing, and is
generally quite decent -- I recommend you give that a try instead.

It is linked to prominently on the https://debian.org website (note the
"Download" button) -- just in case, the link is:

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Have fun, and good luck.

Cheers, Phil.