Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-18 Thread Wenzhuo Zhang
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: > To obtain dmesg and lspci output for bug reporting, I booted up the feisty > desktop-i386 live-cd again. To my surprise, it correctly recognized the > two hard drives this time. To reconfirm, I rebooted the live-cd, and it > recognized correctly again. > > Still, there must

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-18 Thread Chakkaradeep C C
However, the running kernel of feisty now recognized the primary master drive as /dev/sda and the tertiary master as /dev/sdb. Feisty uses SATA drivers even for IDE drives and so you will have every partition renamed from hd(x)(x) to sd(x)(x). But fstab works if you are using UUID for partitio

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-18 Thread Wenzhuo Zhang
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: > 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...

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread john levin
Conrad Knauer wrote: > RFC = ? > Request For Comments HTH John > 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 al

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-18 Thread Patrice Vetsel
I'v reported this Bug #89069 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/89069 Please confirm it ! Wenzhuo Zhang a écrit : > Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: >> 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

Re: Call for Release Candidate testing (again)

2007-04-18 Thread Wenzhuo Zhang
Chakkaradeep C C wrote: > Feisty uses SATA drivers even for IDE drives and so you will have every > partition renamed from hd(x)(x) to sd(x)(x). But fstab works if you are > using UUID for partitions. Thanks for your reply. However, I knew that hda becomes sda when using the linux-ata drivers ins

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread shirish agarwal
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:19:45 -0600 From: "Conrad Knauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW I can think of a few reasons why this is a bad idea, not the least of which is that the alpha/beta versions have big disclaimers to NOT install them on production machines (e.g. includ

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread shirish agarwal
Hi all, Couple of other things, it seems that freedomtoaster.org is no longer being maintained. The whole place is a big big spam/ad place. Even the forums have degenerated into just spam. The last news is of 2k4 & nothing beyond that. Another thing that could be done, if Canonica

Freedom Toaster (was: Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW)

2007-04-18 Thread john levin
shirish agarwal wrote: > Hi all, > Couple of other things, it seems that freedomtoaster.org > is no longer being maintained. The whole > place is a big big spam/ad place. Even the forums have degenerated into > just spam. The last news is of 2k4 & nothing bey

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread Thilo Six
John Richard Moser wrote the following on 18.04.2007 04:50: >snip> > o ShipIt can ship CD-RWs during the development cycle. These CD-RWs > would use special ShipIt-RW art, indicating the disc utilizes CD-RW > storage to house the Ubuntu Operating System. > > o ShipIt-RW artwork woul

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread Thilo Six
Thilo Six wrote the following on 18.04.2007 19:05: > John Richard Moser wrote the following on 18.04.2007 04:50: > >> snip> > >> o ShipIt can ship CD-RWs during the development cycle. These CD-RWs >> would use special ShipIt-RW art, indicating the disc utilizes CD-RW >> storage to hous

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread t u
Thilo Six wrote: >> If you give blank CD RWs with Ubuntu branding away some bad guy(tm) >> could put bad stuff on it and spread that. (That way the gpg chain >> is broken that took soo long to put up on mirrors.) That would be >> bad publicity for Ubuntu/Canonical. > i remember McDonalds had given

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread Forest Bond
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:19:45PM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote: > RFC = ? Request For Comments, I presume. -Forest signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread Conrad Knauer
On 4/18/07, shirish agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a big supporter of testing the Herd CD's but its the cost of the > CD's which does turn me off. Hence my testing is only from the beta stage. > I've got 1 80 GB HDD which is exclusive for testing. Now it would be cool on > Canonical's pa

Re: Freedom Toaster (was: Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW)

2007-04-18 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/18/07, john levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shirish agarwal wrote: > > Hi all, > > Couple of other things, it seems that freedomtoaster.org > > is no longer being maintained. The whole > > place is a big big spam/ad place. Even the forums have degenerate