On Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 10:27:27 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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. True, but anaconda does let one create additional empty partitions that could be used to install Windows after Fedora (creating a dual boot system in the opposite order). Where a Windows variant does support GPT, it would be useful to know if it tolerates installing in a partition created during the Fedora install. >> 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 talking Fedora 32-bit vs 64-bit, I'm talking Windows 32 vs 64. Making sure one records the Windows variant separately minimizes confusion, and allows tests by multiple reporters to be merged together reasonably. > 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. The grub utility that does probing needs to be tested against a variety of Windows variants. Accurately recording which variant that was tested against was the point of my post. Otherwise your test might as well be comprised of tests against empty FAT and NTFS partitions. >> 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. FreeDOS documents grub booting. Again, the grub _probing_ should do the right thing, or at least do no harm. As noted, very much a corner case but if it breaks there should be a note somewhere that Google could spider. I've got to install FreeDOS at some point to test zip/unzip built under Linux, but I'm not likely going to be ready in time to contribute to the F16 beta test results. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
