Leann, 4&5 September Alpha-5 date is now in my diary. For Your Information, despite dismissive comment that I should use VMware to run Linux distros, I still use 'real' dual-boot installation with WinXP from which I can run Kurt Fitzner's SelfImage-121 to create and very quickly restore image 'snapshots'.
Despite other exhortations to totally install Linux in logical drives within extended partitions, I manually install root (and home) in a primary, bootable partition, but with linux-swap in a logical drive within an extended partition on the same drive. Meanwhile, although I am still re-organizing my PCs after the failure of my old PC, I have quickly tried LiveCD Alpha-4 sessions on my A and B rigs (as below) [A] - ASUS-EN8500GTS SATA-320+80GB G31MX-S2 2.6GHz E2160 2Gram (1400x1050 display and 32-bit triple-boot with WinXP and Vista Home Premium) [B] - 384M-XFX8800GS SATA-320+500GB G31MX-S2 2.8GHz E4600 2Gram (1920x1200 display and 32-bit dual boot with WinXP) As briefly reported against Bug Report #252174 the CD had been corrupted by Ubuntu 8.04.1 Brasero, but using a fresh copy created by WinXP/Nero7, I have found Alpha-4 to be very slow to load on my B-rig whilst displaying a blank screen, with only CD and drive light action indicating that there's anything going on, followed by a very long period of apparent inactivity, all this only occurring with boot from cold. My B-rig then fairly promptly produces a gvsd-trash error report, apparently of no interest to Andrew Conkling, whereas my A-rig displays a new cascading display during load and then loads without any gvsd-trash error. Please note that Shut Down doesn't operate with either rig, so I won't bother trying out an actual install until Alpha-5. Meanwhile, I restore and use Mint4, Mint5 or Ubuntu 8.04.1 with WinXP and occasionally 'dabble' with the much-improved Vista, whilst listening to Sound Juicer created MP3s played through Amarok ! Regards - Bruce R -- "loading hardware drivers" [fail] linux kernel generic 2.6.24 - 16, hangs on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215820 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
