Dani, the instructions on the testing page are pretty explicit NOT to use a virtual machine.
What works for me is to have a spare hard drive for testing. At least on my old Toshiba and Dell, it only takes five minutes to swap. On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:42 AM, <daniso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, as always said, this is a beta version and you shouldn't install it > on your primary pc. i suggest that you install a virtual machine like > vmware, virtualbox or what ever, and test ubuntu from their. > > Regards, > Dani > > > > -- Gesendet von meinem HP TouchPad > ------------------------------ > Am 24.09.2011 15:47 schrieb Aakash Sharma <aakash.y.sha...@gmail.com>: > i do have a laptop running 11.04 and i'm willing to test for 11.10 beta. > however, is there a way to secure things so that if anything goes wrong, my > data + settings for 11.04 remain the same? > > it's my primary laptop, so i can't afford to loose it for more than 2 days > and i need a way to get things back to normal. > > i appreciate ubuntu n everyone working on it. > > ~aakash > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Sergio Zanchetta <prime...@ubuntu.com>wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> Oneiric Beta 2 is out now and we ask everyone on the QA team to >> participate in the laptop testing, confirming positive/negative results >> and >> checking for regressions from previous milestones. >> >> The procedures for testing your laptop and reporting results are >> explained on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop/Procedures >> >> You can start downloading the image at >> http://releases.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ >> >> Test results will be tracked on >> http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/ >> >> You may have accounts on the tracker from last time. Please register >> if you are new to this. >> >> Please let us know if you have any questions, we will coordinate >> testing in #ubuntu-testing on freenode. >> >> Thanks and happy testing! >> >> -- >> Sergio Zanchetta >> https://launchpad.net/~primes2h >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-laptop-testing >> Post to : ubuntu-laptop-test...@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-laptop-testing >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > -- > Ubuntu-qa mailing list > Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa > > -- Chris Hermansen · clherman...@gmail.com C'est ma façon de parler.
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