Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-17 Thread Wenzhuo Zhang
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: > Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: >> 3. The desktop has two hard drives. One is connected to the motherboard >> as primary master, and the other is connected to a Promise Ultra100 TX2 >> IDE controller card as tertiary master. The feisty live-cd recognizes >> the primary boot drive as /de

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-17 Thread Conrad Knauer
RFC = ? On 4/17/07, John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been thinking on ShipIt CDs and the problems with getting them out > taking so long. [...] > I propose we ship Ubuntu ShipIt CDs on CD-RWs. This would allow users > to order ShipIt CDs during the Alpha/Beta cycles and u

[RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-17 Thread John Richard Moser
I've been thinking on ShipIt CDs and the problems with getting them out taking so long. I could give a long-winded essay; but I'm dealing with people here, so I'll give brief points and you can comment. Summary of the problem: o ShipIt CDs take too long to get out to users, often times weeks o

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-17 Thread George Farris
On Tue, 2007-17-04 at 16:50 +0800, Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: > 2. I chose the manual partition method. On the Edit a Partition window, > the Mount Point drop-down menu was empty initially. Only after I typed > in "/" and reopened the "Edit a Partition" window could it display a > drop-down menu of possi

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-17 Thread Phillip Susi
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: > Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: >> 3. The desktop has two hard drives. One is connected to the motherboard >> as primary master, and the other is connected to a Promise Ultra100 TX2 >> IDE controller card as tertiary master. The feisty live-cd recognizes >> the primary boot drive as /de

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-17 Thread Wenzhuo Zhang
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: > 3. The desktop has two hard drives. One is connected to the motherboard > as primary master, and the other is connected to a Promise Ultra100 TX2 > IDE controller card as tertiary master. The feisty live-cd recognizes > the primary boot drive as /dev/sdb, and the tertiary mas

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-17 Thread Wenzhuo Zhang
I am testing the desktop-i386 image on an old desktop machine right now. I've come across three problems so far: 1. The feisty installation on my laptop fails to burn the image using an external USB Combo drive (Model: TEAC DW-224E-B). Neither the "Write to disc..." context menu facility nor the