Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-13 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:51 +0200, David Prieto wrote: > Hi again, > > > > Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home > > > directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories. > > > Do you have to do anything special for that to work? I usually keep >

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-13 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 23:47 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 00:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I presume that you did not instruct the installer to format the old > > /home partition? (If you did, then why?) > > > > If not, then that's a very serious bug. Please report it

Re: Banshee by default in Intrepid

2008-06-08 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 14:43 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: > There are a couple of positives to using Banshee by default over Rhythmbox: > 1) Complete iPod support (Rythmbox only supports reading from iPods) No. Rhythmbox can write to iPods just fine. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Banshee by default in Intrepid

2008-06-08 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 15:20 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: > I have never been able to get Rythmbox to update my iPod nor my wifes. Then please file a bug. > The Rhythmbox webpage only says it can read from iPods and other > portable devices nothing about writing. From http://www.gnome.org/projects

Re: call for testing usb-creator

2008-09-23 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:48 AM, (``-_-ยดยด) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry for not having reported this earlier, but I did give it a test last > week, with a daily cd iso and a 8GiBs pendrive, and it got stuck at 8%. This is in some respects a bug. It's not getting stuck, it's

Fwd: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2008-12-23 Thread Evan Dandrea
I'm forwarding here as Peter's email implies permission to do so. Please CC Peter on replies as he is not subscribed to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Henderson (2nd Acnt) Date: Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:07 AM Subject: You lost a new Ubuntu user To: ubuntu-devel-ow..

Re: live cd ubiquity fails when partitioning

2009-01-12 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:09 AM, shirish wrote: > Hi all, > Please see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/316148 > > I have nominated the same for jaunty (preferably alpha3) as due to this bug > people cannot install from daily live CD. This is already fixed in bzr, and will

Re: gparted, ubiquity and other packages left behind by karmic a2 installer

2009-06-22 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Nathan Dorfman wrote: > Just installed karmic alpha 2, and noticed that a few packages that > should have been removed at install are left behind. > > These include gparted, ubiquity, casper and a couple of others. > Ubiquity's package description even states: Inst

Re: ubuntu ubiquity

2009-08-26 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Thiago Braga Santana wrote: > I need to know how to pass a pressed.cfg file as an argument for program > ubiquity. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbiquityAutomation should help you get started with that. > When I'm trying to install, it stops at step 7 without displaying

Ubuntu Stack Exchange

2010-07-08 Thread Evan Dandrea
About two weeks ago I created a proposal for an Ubuntu Stack Exchange (http://webapps.stackexchange.com/ or http://stackoverflow.com for the unfamiliar). My hope is that this proposal will be accepted and the Ubuntu site will be helpful for those individuals whom are already familiar with the imme

Re: Crashes from Unity/Xorg continues with 12.10

2012-10-25 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Thomas Novin wrote: > Now I had my first crash in 12.10 and it generated a crash-file in > /var/crash: > > -rw-r- 1 root whoopsie 5718069 okt 22 16:14 _usr_bin_Xorg.0.crash > However, after logging in, I didn't get any notification that my system had > cr

Request to include in Main: migration-assistant

2007-02-06 Thread Evan Dandrea
migration-assistant is an application that imports documents and settings from other operating systems. It will be used in Ubuntu as part of Ubiquity and debian-installer to import from dual-boot systems during the install process. It needs to be uploaded to main so that the supporting Ubiquity c

Announcing migration-assistant

2007-02-12 Thread Evan Dandrea
non-destructive, the installer is obviously not. If you have any questions I can be found in #ubuntu-installer. Thanks, Evan Dandrea (evand) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Ubiquity usability study

2007-06-27 Thread Evan Dandrea
Celeste was kind enough to do a usability study of Ubiquity, and in doing so pointed out a number of issues that should be resolved. I have the following thoughts on how the installer can be improved to fix these and other issues, but I am interested in getting input from other developers, especia

Re: CD boot installer for Windows contribution

2007-09-07 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 06:00:53PM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > It is Windows installer based on Instlux which allows booting system > from CD without modifying BIOS, by modifying Windows boot loader sequence. > > It is different from Instlux because it does not require kernel nor > initrd im

Re: CD boot installer for Windows contribution

2007-09-10 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:47:05PM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote: > On 9/7/07, Evan Dandrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wubi, which should be integrated in the LiveCD very soon. > > By "very soon" do you by any chance mean for Gutsy? > Or will this likely start

Re: Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

2007-09-27 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:44:56PM +, Tormod Volden wrote: > The below, inlined patch introduces the boot option "lowraminstall" which > boots the computer directly into Ubiquity in a minimal X session. I would > suggest sneaking this into Gutsy, as a hidden and unsupported possibility > for th

Re: Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

2007-09-28 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 08:16:16AM +, Tormod Volden wrote: > Interesting. Is there a boot option that I can use to check it out? Add 'automatic-ubiquity' to the kernel cmdline on boot. Thanks, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Preseeding ubiquity, how?

2007-10-15 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:02:13PM +0200, Fabrizio Balliano wrote: > Hi to all, > as a developer of a few Ubuntu derivatives I followed the last threads > about the barebone X session for ubiquity, the "only-ubiquity" boot > option it's really cool for me so I can avoid remastering alternate cd > t

Re: Will PulseAudio be in Hardy? (Re: New Programs for Hardy?)

2007-12-16 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 10:36 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > I think PulseAudio can save every user great amount of trouble regarding > sound issues, and bad bad esd. > > I hope PulseAudio get included in Hardy as default. > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/cleanup-audio-jumble

Re: A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-07 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:05 +1300, Jonathan Musther wrote: > Agreed. I don't know why gparted was abandoned, it provided a more > user friendly way to do things. I like the proposal here too! > GParted was abandoned because it was actually just an embedded window rather than an actual componen

Re: A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-08 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 17:51 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > Let's hope it won't be forgotten in the depth of the ML, like many > > other great things... Have you directly contacted the authors? > > An email to Colin Watson (installer team leader), no answer. > Hmm, yes, maybe I should contact th

Re: A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

2008-01-09 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 20:16 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Hi! > > I did a walk-through and compiled issues, suggestions and several > mockups regarding the Ubuntu installation: > > http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ubuntu_installer_thorwil.pdf > > Any comments welcome. I'm willing to

Re: LVM on hardy's live installer?

2008-01-09 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 14:29 +1100, Lex Hider wrote: > I'm not that interested in whether or not previous releases had it. > My main concern is: if it fairly simple to add LVM support to the live > CD, can we implement it for the Hardy release? > > When I talk of LVM support, I don't mean by defa

Re: LVM on hardy's live installer?

2008-01-09 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 10:26 -0700, Kevin Fries wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:50 -0500, Evan Dandrea wrote: > > To my knowledge there has never been a LVM branch of ubiquity. > > I am 85% sure Jeos does, as does the alternate install disk. For some > reason, I thought th

Re: LVM on hardy's live installer?

2008-01-09 Thread Evan Dandrea
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 10:49 -0700, Kevin Fries wrote: > There is a bad issue IMHO with the way Ubuntu partitions disks by > default anyway. While I always custom install to place /boot and /var > or /var/log on separate partitions, I understand other reluctance to do > that. But! /home should al

Automating desktop CD installations.

2008-01-10 Thread Evan Dandrea
After the release of 7.10 I received a few questions about automating installations using the desktop CD and ubiquity's new preseeding support. I just finished writing a brief overview of how to accomplish this here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbiquityAutomation Feel free to directly email me if yo