Jonathan Kulp wrote Friday, June 12, 2009 8:59 PM
The .iso is finished uploading and is ready for testing by whoever wants to try it. Download here: http://prodet.hu/bert/lilydev/lilybuntu.iso It's 716 MB, so it won't fit on a CD. If you're using a virtual machine you don't have to worry about that anyway. I just installed and compiled Lilypond successfully inside a VM on my iMac at work (using Sun VirtualBox for Mac). It'd be great if a Windows user could try it. The only Windows machine I have is a virtual machine.
Hi Jonathan I finally got around to trying this today on my Windows Vista Home Premium host. I installed Sun VirtualBox, downloaded your .iso and installed Ubuntu. No real problems, but I did get hung up for a while thinking Ubuntu had been installed when it was in fact the install system that had been loaded. As the install system appears to be fully functional it fooled me into thinking the install was complete. In fact there is an install icon yet to activate; when I spotted this and completed the install all went fine and I could boot into my new account on my new Ubuntu system. Then I downloaded the source from git/origin, and the LilyPond "make all" is well under way as I write. It's already reached the stage where the docs are built :) The only two problems I've yet to resolve are how to share files with my Windows host and how to make the Ubuntu screen larger. I can activate fullscreen, but all it does is place a same-sized Ubuntu window in the middle of a full-screen one. Neither problem is serious though, and a bit of RTFM should disclose fixes. So many thanks for doing this and thanks for Bertalan for hosting the .iso file. The installation was virtually seamless! Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
