Re: ISO Testing Status

2012-08-11 Thread Fabio Marconi
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 13:30 -0400, Karl Anliot wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:45 PM, John Kim wrote: > > On running persistence. What is persistence? Hallo Persistence is just a feature that the live session gives you if enabled during the creation of the usb key using startup disk creator. Is

Re: ISO Testing Status

2012-08-10 Thread Karl Anliot
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:45 PM, John Kim wrote: > On running persistence. What is persistence? > http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14912/create-a-persistent-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive/ Persistence is when the livecd (on usb) is copied (not installed) onto a disk with the special file that ena

Re: ISO Testing Status

2012-08-09 Thread John Kim
Disk -> usb memory stick. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:45 PM, John Kim wrote: > On running persistence. What is persistence? > > I'm stumped right now. The site's directions to running a live session > persistence was to "create a partition on the disk." When trying to format > my disk, I don't ha

Re: ISO Testing Status

2012-08-09 Thread John Kim
On running persistence. What is persistence? I'm stumped right now. The site's directions to running a live session persistence was to "create a partition on the disk." When trying to format my disk, I don't have the option of ext3. Am I supposed to reformat my disk and partition a mac drive to

Re: ISO Testing Status

2012-08-09 Thread Jackson Doak
no sorry as he has tried it and still prefers windows. So I cannot test mac Jackson On Friday, August 10, 2012, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi Jackson, > as far as I know, there is no legal VM for amd64-mac system. There is for the older PPC systems (G3, G4, G5) > Maybe get him to start with Live C

Re: ISO Testing Status

2012-08-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Jackson, as far as I know, there is no legal VM for amd64-mac system. There is for the older PPC systems (G3, G4, G5) Maybe get him to start with Live CD, then install as side by side? Once he sees the difference I'm sure he will be a convert :) Regards, Phill. On 9 August 2012 22:52, Jacks

Re: ISO Testing Status

2012-08-09 Thread Jackson Doak
does the mac version work in a virtual machine? i have access to one but windows is installed and my brother wont allow ubuntu to be put on. jackson On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Nicholas Skaggs < nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> wrote: > A special thanks to all of our testers this week! > > g

Re: ISO Testing Status

2012-08-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
A special thanks to all of our testers this week! gregfaith, victor.zhou, redmar, larsnooden, carla-sella, michael-kroll, doak-jackson, k1fri, sjskaggs, kate.stewart, fabiomarconi, smartboyhw, lbsolost, robinc The status page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Cadence/Status) is showi