Hi Lubuntu users and friends,
After helping us to test the test-case 'Alternate Install (Encryption) in Lubuntu Alternate i386 for Vivid Daily' Ventrical at the Ubuntu Forums wrote this very inspiring post for us, who care about Lubuntu :-) _____ It is extremely important to have a working, coherent and comprehensive alternate.iso (such as that we have been testing) because there is a trend for younger students to work with older hardware and be able to have some rock solid form factors to experiment on. It is equally important the instructional content be clear, concise and succinct covering all of the possible loops and supposition errors. White hot programming inspiration is too difficult to deploy on phones and tablets. They are more analogous to executive toy playthings and not rock solid desktop terminals which will always be in demand. There is a large market for older hardware/desktops for noobs and experimenters. And a lot of that older hardware has virtual features that newer hardware does not always have. What better OS to use as a benchmarker than Lubuntu alternate. Regards.. _____ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2266912&page=3&p=13240236#post13240236 -o- Ventrical found this logic bug: _____ But I do not see the option where it will allow to select bootloader manually.... I'm still looking.. Ahhh .. got it ! This is a logic bug. In my own case I assume that If I choose 'no' that I will loose my install - it doesn't report at first that I have the option to set the /dev/sda manually. (so it is natural to try again and assume install is wasted .. and also you can go back and re-install software - so original install is not wasted, hence saving time. Regards.. _____ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2266912&p=13239341#post13239341 -o- He wants us to spend some time to further improve the test-case, and suggests the following improvements: _____ Select Yes to accept the changes and press Enter You should see a request for http proxy information ***Leave empty for none. That means do not put any info in the dialog box. Hit the tab key to highlight <continue> and press <Enter>*** Input http proxy info or press Enter Wait for a while - The install may seem like it has locked at a percentage but is actually working in the background. You can check and see if it is working by switching to tty4 (ctrl + alt + f4). Select 'No' to install grub boot loader. *** A dialog box with your partition information will come up and you can choose target drive from there.*** and select it manually. # Changed from yes to no Enter /dev/sdx where x is the target drive letter (often a) and continue. _____ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2266912&page=2&p=13239874#post13239874 I think these suggested changes should actually be done in the *alternate installer* (rather than the test-case) for the benefit of all users, not only the few of us who are iso-testers. Or even better, the automatic selection of target for the bootloader should be improved, not only the text for the user, but also the mechanism under the hood. Best regards Nio -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
