<div dir="ltr"><div>IIAB 6.6 Preview 4 (just released!) is installable from <a href="http://download.iiab.io/6.6">http://download.iiab.io/6.6</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>1) Profound thanks to all who can assist Matt Johnson now actively testing the following 2 situations...where WiFi sometimes doesn't issue IP addresses...OR sometimes disappears within an hour or so:</div><ul><li>RPi WiFi hotspot sometimes doesn't work when Ethernet ISN'T plugged in? dhcpd fails to start? <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/issues/989">#989</a></li><li>TK: RPi WiFi hotspot can fail within an hour if Ethernet IS plugged in during boot? <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/issues/926">#926</a> </li></ul><div><i>There is reason to believe that one or both of these highly intermittent gotchas may be due to underlying Raspbian / firmware issues, possibly
<a class="gmail-issue-link gmail-js-issue-link gmail-tooltipped gmail-tooltipped-ne" href="https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2453">raspberrypi/linux#2453</a>
and <a href="http://community.rachelfriends.org/t/loosing-wifi-connectivity-on-rachel-plus-3-0/838">http://community.rachelfriends.org/t/loosing-wifi-connectivity-on-rachel-plus-3-0/838</a> ? But we need more REPEATABLE PATTERNS -- thanks all who are able to contribute, rebooting as many times as necessary until patterns become more apparent and Written Up For Others !</i><br></div><div><br></div><div>2)
Thank you so much to Matt Johnson, who learned the hard way and again reminded
us today that NOOBS has a Very Different partition table from Raspbian, and
will not work :-)<br></div><div><br></div><div>3) In other news, <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/3">IIAB 6.6</a> has converged **tremendously** over the past month, thanks to Arky and many others' extremely intensive testing...by more than 10 different volunteers...bringing this to fruition with at least 3 deployments having just now in recent days gone live in schools with IIAB 6.6 pre-releases! <span class="gmail-ILfuVd gmail-yZ8quc"></span> So even if we don't receive every last one of our heart's desires
<span class="gmail-ILfuVd gmail-yZ8quc">—</span> yes there will be a few KNOWN ISSUES even on 6.6 Release Day <span class="gmail-ILfuVd gmail-yZ8quc">(see the bottom of <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.6-Release-Notes">IIAB 6.6's Draft Release Notes</a> !)</span> I'm convinced we can and should release around late August 2018, paving the way for IIAB 6.7 itself too coming very soon later this year :-)<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ASIDE: should we consider supporting <a href="https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/wiki/NOOBS-partitioning-explained">NOOBS and its very odd partition tables</a> for IIAB 6.7 later this year, to embrace a substantially broader global demographic, committing more deeply to reduce barriers to entry, in order to welcome everybody? (Or conversely is NOOBS's partitioning something we just cannot touch, even with a 10-foot pole :-) e.g. the current glitch arising from "tune2fs -m 1 /dev/mmcblk0p2" on NOOBS can easily be fixed using "tune2fs -m 1 /dev/mmcblk0p7" IF NOOBS should even be considered at all?<br></div></div>